Mississippi State Highway Commission v. Myers

ETHRIDGE, Chief Justice:

M. O. Myers and wife brought this action in the Circuit Court of Jasper County against the Mississippi State Highway Commission, appellant, for damages resulting from highway construction which cut off a public road used by plaintiffs for access to their property, by crossing land to the south owned by J. E. Myers. In the first trial the jury returned a verdict of $5,000 for plain*318tiffs, and on appeal this judgment was reversed and the cause remanded for a new trial on damages. Mississippi State Highway Comm. v. Myers, 184 So.2d 409 (Miss.1966).

On the second trial, the…