Mississippi State Highway Commission v. Valentine

*892Ethridge, J.

Appellant, State Highway Commission, filed in the County Court of the First Judicial District of Jones County, Mississippi, a petition to condemn for highway purposes a twenty acre strip of land through the Valentines’ cattle farm. The jury in the county court rendered a verdict for the Valentines of $32,000. The Commission appealed to the circuit court, where the jury’s verdict was $28,500. The Commission contends the verdict, upon which the circuit court’s judgment was based, was so grossly excessive as to evince bias, passion and prejudice by the jury. We agree with that…