City of Danville v. Anderson

A judgment was sought in this proceeding by James A. Anderson, State Highway Commissioner, appellee, against the City of Danville, and others, appellants, declaring that the State of Virginia was entitled to an easement, for highway purposes, sixty feet wide over a stretch of road 2.98 miles long constituting a part of State Highway No. 41 in Pittsylvania county.

From a decree adjudicating that the right of way to which the Commonwealth was entitled was sixty feet in width, appellants obtained this appeal.

What is the correct width of the easement over the stretch of road involved is the sole…