Chairman of the Highway Commission v. Carter

*58Mrs. J. D. Carter, Ruby Robertson {nee Thresher) and J. M. Thresher are the owners of two parcels of land in Botetourt county, Virginia, one of four acres, located on State Highway No. 33, known as the Lee Highway, about six miles from Buchanan, and the other of sixty acres, located back from the State highway, north of and near to the four acre tract, but separated therefrom by the land of others. The owners have never resided upon either tract of land and have lived in North Carolina for the past fifteen years.

In the construction of the Lee Highway in front of the four acre tract, dirt was…