Jefferson County v. Adwell

A majority of the Court concur in the opinion of Justice LAWSON, which appears below, except in the following particular.

The difference of opinion is as to the time when the value of the land taken and the injury to other lands of the owner should be subject to ascertainment on condemnation under section 235 of the Constitution and enabling statutes. We agree that the correct formula for fixing that time is stated in Jones v. New Orleans & S. R. Co., 70 Ala. 227, as follows: “The value of the land when taken, before the construction of the road, and before any injury to the land taken…