Opinion ID: 1106367
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Whether Dunklin's opinion on the property's highest and best use was consistent with the trial court's order.

Text: ¶ 12. Tunica claims Dunklin failed to adopt any new opinion of highest and best use and continued to rely on his initial testimony because he arrived at exactly the same price per acre after the court's order. Tunica draws our attention to numerous places in the record to illustrate this fact by way of references to answers to interrogatories and Dunklin's deposition. Because Dunklin's initial opinion was that the highest and best use of the property was commercial and industrial, and because he continued to testify to that effect, Tunica asserts that his opinion was not in keeping with the court's order. It is true that Dunklin continued to believe that the highest and best use of the land should have been commercial or industrial, but the court did not order Dunklin to change his actual opinion. The court order only prohibited his testimony based on comparables of commercial or industrial land or based on a highest and best use of commercial or industrial. Dunklin makes it clear in his deposition that, despite his own opinion, he understood the confines of the court order and kept his testimony within those boundaries. Again, we cannot find an abuse of discretion by the trial court in admitting Dunklin's testimony.