Opinion ID: 781873
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Heading: Lost Market Value

Text: 25 Lost market value is the difference in the market value of the property immediately before and after the injury. Shotkoski v. Standard Chem. Mfg. Co., 195 Neb. 22, 237 N.W.2d 92, 98 (1975). The Racickys claim the jury found their lost market value damages to be $221,800. 7 Farmland does not dispute this calculation. Farmland asks this court to modify the district court's judgment by reducing the Racickys' damages to only those for direct injury to the cows, i.e., $221,800 reduced by the 10% fault assessed to plaintiffs, i.e., $199,620. Because sufficient evidence exists on lost market value damages, the district court properly submitted this element of damages to the jury.