State Highway Commissioner v. McCarthy

The State Highway Commissioner, plaintiff, on June 10, 1966, filed a petition for condemnation of land owned by defendants, Kenneth McCarthy and Vivian McCarthy, husband and wife, and other lands in Bay County, for the construction of highway I-75.1 Defendants’ land, the subject of the taking and this appeal, comprised 10.7 acres in fee, of which 1.4 acres was subject to an existing right-of-way easement. The estates to be taken also included all rights of ingress and egress (limited access) between the highway to be constructed and part of defendants’ property, which was not condemned,…