Court Opinion

ID: 9778612
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 21:13:57.548318+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:33:12.116788
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
Our holding does no violence to Texas v. Oakley, Tex., 356 S.W.2d 909, or Hays v. State, Tex.Civ.App., 342 S.W.2d 167. The objection made to the sales offered in Oakley was that the expert was testifying about hearsay. The question therefore, was whether sales which are comparable may be told about, though the information was from hearsay sources. The case did not concern sales which were non-comparable. Hays v. State states three instances in which comparable sales may be offered. The opinion assumes that the sales are in fact comparable. In listing the conditions under which sales may be offered, the opinion contains the prefacing statement: “Evidence of sales of comparable properties may be offered under three conditions In other words, comparable sales may be offered under certain conditions, Hays v. State, supra; and they may be offered though the source of the information may be from hearsay. Texas v. Oakley, supra. The basic rule still exists, which is that the sales must actually and in fact be comparable. If the sale is too remote in time, as in this case, it is excluded for that reason.
Appellees’ motion for rehearing is overruled.