State v. Prow's Motel, Inc.

Rogosheske, Justice.

Appeal by the state from a judgment, entered pursuant to a special verdict, awarding respondent damages for the alleged taking by the state of its right of access to and from a four-lane highway and from the trial court’s order denying the state’s motion for a new trial.

Respondent is the owner of a motel. The approximately 4 acres of land on which the motel is situated abuts upon the east side of Trunk Highway No. 52, 500 feet north of its intersection with Second Street Northwest in Rochester. Highway No. 52 runs north and south through Rochester and is the principal…