Ark. State Highway Comm. v. Schanbeck

Frank Holt, Justice.

This is an eminent domain proceeding in which the appellant took 1.37 acres of appellees’ land for interstate highway construction purposes. This taking resulted in the destruction of the frontage of appellees’ property upon a county road. It is the appellees’ position that the remaining portion of their 40-acre tract is now “landlocked” because this destruction of the county road frontage makes it impossible to reach their lands without trespassing upon their neighbors’ intervening lands. The appellant contends that the lands are not “landlocked” because the landowners…