Court Opinion

ID: 9664945
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 00:35:01.675769+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:11.746307
License: Public Domain

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
The Petitioners and the Respondent have filed motions for rehearing. We overrule all motions. We adhere to the judgment heretofore rendered. However, we find it necessary to take note of Respondent’s motion to the extent of retracting the holding that a special instruction would have been appropriate and that it was harmful error to fail to instruct the jury that the construction of a new street and diversion of traffic from the old to the new and the circuity of travel cannot constitute a deprivation of reasonable access. Failure to instruct the jury in regard to these matters was not before the Court. The Court was never called upon to so instruct the jury. The only ruling of the Court with which we are concerned is the action of the Court in overruling Petitioners’ objections to evidence of diversion of traffic and circuity of travel to be used and taken into consideration by the witnesses in ar*260riving at their opinion as to market value of Plaintiff’s property after the construction of the project. The only special issues submitted to the jury for determination simply inquired as to the value of the Plaintiff’s property before and after construction. It was harmful error to allow the introduction of the objectionable evidence for the jury’s consideration in determining its answers to the special issues submitted. Diversion of traffic resulting in the necessity of using circuitous routes is not compensable. See authorities cited in our original opinion.
The motions for rehearing are overruled. No further motions for rehearing will be entertained.