Opinion ID: 2607963
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Heading: diminution in the value of land

Text: The plaintiff's witness, J. Robert Hamblin, had been a resident of Uinta County, Wyoming since 1934, a real estate broker for 26 years, a Wyoming licensed real estate broker and a bonded abstractor. He testified that the test to obtain a real estate broker's license consisted of questions about appraisals, selling and buying land. He had appraised farms, ranches, houses and commercial buildings for the government, the county, individuals and bankers, and estimated that he had made 1,000 appraisals, and over the past years had made 50 appraisals of lands of the same general character of the plaintiff's lands in question, and had known the plaintiff's property since 1934. Mr. Hamblin looked over the property in question to see if he could ascertain what damage had been done. He inspected the alfalfa field very thoroughly and went over the rest of the lands, being the alsike clover and the brome grass fields. His testimony was that he looked at what was destroyed and what wasn't destroyed. He knew the fair market value of the various types and classifications of agricultural lands located in the general vicinity of Evanston, Wyoming. This knowledge as to the value of various kinds of croplands, ranges and irrigated pastures was obtained from the records showing lands sold to a willing buyer by a willing seller.