Sorrell v. Wood

This is ,an appeal from the county court of Dyer county, by J. L. Sorrell, the petitioner, who sought to condemn a roadway from in front of his residence across a narrow strip of land to a hard-surface road. By the establishment of State Highway No. 20, which passes through Madison, Crockett and Dyer counties, the old road which ran in front of petitioner’s home was abandoned as a public road. In order to straighten the road the new state highway did not follow the location of the old county road but in many places and at many points the course of the new road cut off portions of the old…