1994
Kipps v. Virginia Natural Gas, Inc.
Supreme Court of Virginia
247 Va. 162, 441 S.E.2d 4
Corporation was seeking a pipeline easement over landowner’s property. Landowner sought to put on evidence of damage to the residue related to fear of pipeline explosion. Trial court ruled her appraisal expert could not testify on reduction in residue’s value, because he had no training, had not done research, or any analysis on a pipeline’s effect on adjoining lands. He had formed his opinion as to the reduction in value by talking with developers in the Charlottesville area. Supreme Court affirmed, as witness did not have the expertise to give an opinion on diminution in value to the residue.
Summary prepared by Judge Jonathan Apgar, 23rd Judicial Circuit in Virginia, for the William & Mary Property Rights Project, Marshall-Wythe School of Law, William & Mary ©2019.
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