Commonwealth, Department of Transportation v. Catlett

GANT, Judge.

The appellants appeal from an order in each of these cases dismissing two condemnation proceedings for lack of jurisdiction. The lower court ruled that KRS 177.082 mandates that these actions and all like them should be filed in the county court and that the Franklin Circuit Court had no jurisdiction over the proceedings.

The history of condemnation proceedings in Kentucky discloses that in 1952 the Acts provided that all such proceedings should be commenced in the county court of the county in which the land was located. In 1970, *760an alternate method was provided, granting to the…