Sweeney v. Dierstein

The parties will be referred to herein as they appeared in the lower court; i. e., defendants in error will be referred to as plaintiffs and plaintiffs in error as defendants.

On May 13, 1931, plaintiffs began an action in the district court of Greer county against the defendants Dan Sweeney, C. P. Smith, and J. D. Jenkins, engineers of the State Highway Commission of the state of Oklahoma, by filing their petition alleging that said defendants, over their protest, went upon a tract of land of which they were owners, for the purpose of appropriating it to the use and benefit of the state of…