WPI 151.06 Costs—Purchase Price
6A WAPRAC WPI 151.06Washington Practice Series TMWashington Pattern Jury Instructions--Civil
6A Wash. Prac., Wash. Pattern Jury Instr. Civ. WPI 151.06 (7th ed.)
Washington Practice Series TM
Washington Pattern Jury Instructions--Civil
April 2022 Update
Part X-A. Eminent Domain
Chapter 151. Eminent Domain—Special Instructions
WPI 151.06 Costs—Purchase Price
An owner is entitled to the fair market value of the property condemned regardless of what it may have cost the owner.
NOTE ON USE
Use this instruction when evidence is introduced on the owner's cost of the property or improvements placed thereon.
COMMENT
Costs are not the measure of compensation; the measure is the market value of the property. In re Issaquah, 31 Wn.2d 556, 197 P.2d 1018 (1948); Pacific County v. Astoria North Beach Ferry Co., 170 Wash. 643, 17 P.2d 40 (1932); Kincaid v. City of Seattle, 74 Wash. 617, 134 P. 504 (1913); City of Renton v. Scott Pac. Terminal, Inc., 9 Wn.App. 364, 512 P.2d 1137 (1973); State v. Wilson, 6 Wn.App. 443, 493 P.2d 1252 (1972).
[Current as of October 2016.]
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