State Highway Department v. Hood

Whitman, Judge.

1. In this case, involving condemnation, there was evidence that a 33.8 acre strip of land was taken for highway construction purposes from the condemnee’s 290 acre parcel; that approximately 200 acres of the parcel were under lease to another who conducted a dairying operation thereon; and that the taking left the remaining parcel divided into two portions connected only by a combination drainage and passage way constructed under the highway.

In a case such as this the condemnee is entitled to just and adequate compensation for the property actually taken. He is also entitled…