Davidson County Board of Education v. First American National Bank

This is a condemnation case in which the Board of Education sought to condemn 16.55 acres of a 52.5 acre *12tract of land for the purpose of erecting a school building in Davidson County.

The jury of view fixed the value for the property taken at $32,387 and allowed $8,097 as incidental damages. On appeal to the Circuit Court that court trying the case with a jury rendered a verdict in favor of the property owner for $35,000 for the actual land taken, and found that the incidental damages were offset and balanced by the incidental benefits. On appeal to the Court of Appeals that Court reversed…