State ex rel. Department of Highways v. Winford

HARDY, Judge.

This is an expropriation suit in which the State, through the Department of Highways, originally appropriated 18.133 acres, for which it deposited, as allegedly adequate compensation, the sum of $13,146.00. Some ten months later a small additional tract was taken, for which a deposit was made of $121.00.

Subsequent to the initiation of these proceedings the defendant died testate and the proper heirs have been substituted as parties defendant.

From judgment in favor of defendants, allowing an additional award of $13,965.40, the plaintiff has appealed.

In the evaluation made by the…