CHAPTER 563

AN ACT to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered
25-18.1, providing for procedure of commissioners in condemnation,
their report, and what testimony may be required in connection there-

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Approved March 31, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a section numbered
25-18.1 as follows:

§ 25-18.1. Unless an allegation be made or evidence produced of fraud,
collusion, corruption or improper conduct, no testimony shall be received
from the commissioners for the purpose of explaining or clarifying the
report or the compensation and damages therein set forth. At the hearing
of exceptions to the commissioners’ report on the grounds that the award
is grossly excessive or inadequate or that the commissioners misunder-
stood the instructions or proceeded upon erroneous principles, or that there
was fraud, collusion, corruption or improper conduct, the court or judge
in vacation may require the commissioners to attend and advise the court
or judge, as the case may be, as to the manner in which the report was
formulated. '