Commonwealth, Department of Highways v. Nelson

DAVIS, Commissioner.

The Department of Highways appeals from a judgment awarding $40,000 to the appellees in a condemnation proceeding. It is urged that the verdict is palpably excessive and unsupported by evidence of probative value and that the court should have stricken certain testimony offered by ap-pellees because of the witnesses’ unfamiliarity with the effect of the taking.

Before the taking, the property in question was being used as a trailer park. It consisted of a lot approximately rectangular in shape, having 230 feet of frontage along then-existing Kentucky Highway 54, extending…