Tenison v. Forehand

MERRILL, Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment condemning a 30-foot right of way across appellants’ land to connect appellees’ land with a public road and assessing damages therefor under the provisions of Tit. 19, §§ 56-58, Code 1940, as amended.

The one question presented here is the right of appellees to acquire this right of way. No point is raised as to the adequacy of the compensation set by the jury.

Appellees purchased forty acres of land' adjoining and north of appellants’ forty acres in January, 1965. In October, 1965, they filed the application for condemnation of a strip thirty…