State Highway Commissioner v. Bell

This appeal involves the question of the measure of compensation to be applied where the State Highway Commissioner changes the official design of a highway project, necessitating the taking- of a second parcel of land from the same landowner, and such second parcel has been enhanced in value by reason of the original project.

On October 9, 1964, the Highway Commissioner acquired title to the first parcel of land when he filed in the clerk’s office of the Circuit Court of Fairfax County a certificate of deposit reciting the taking of 34,421 square feet of the property of S. J. Bell, the land*770own…