Arkansas State Highway Comm'n v. Arkansas Real Estate Co.

Lyle Brown, Justice.

Appellees are Arkansas Real Estate Company, Inc. and Arkansas Warehouse Corporation. They owned separate record title to adjacent tracts totalling seventy-seven acres. Appellant condemned some eight acres running north and south across the west side for a controlled access facility; and also a small narrow tract along the entire south side of the acreage for drainage structures. The alleged unity of use, together with the amount of just compensation, was challenged in the trial. Both issues were submitted to a jury on interrogatories. The jury found unity of use and fixed…