In County of Los Angeles v. Kranz (1977) 65 Cal. App. 3d 656, the court found the county's pretrial bid was unreasonable as a matter of law: "First, and most obviously, county's offer was significantly disproportionate to the adjudicated value of the property, less than 80 percent of the jury verdict. Second, county's offer was significantly lower in absolute terms ($ 16,000) than the jury verdict. Third, county's offer ignored landowners' expert's appraisal of $ 96,750. While experts often differ, the substantial difference between appraisals should have cast some doubt on the accuracy of county's appraisal of $ 57,200. . . . County should have realized that a jury would give some weight to the opinion of each expert, and fix the fair market value of the property somewhere between the two. Landowners came down more than half way on their demand: county stubbornly stuck to its own appraisal plus a small amount which would barely cover landowners' added costs of preparing the case for trial. Former Code of Civil Procedure section 1249.3 was intended to promote settlement of valuation disputes in eminent domain proceedings and guarantee full recompense to the landowners in case of unnecessary litigation. It should have been applied in these circumstances." (County of Los Angeles, at pp. 659-660.)