State v. Wright

Condemnation proceedings brought to acquire additional ground for the state normal at Wayne, Nebraska. The *618properties of one Burret W. Wright and Walter A. Hunter were taken under condemnation. The two proceedings were tried together on the appeal in the district court and are presented here, on the appeal of the state, as consolidated cases.

The property condemned consisted of town lots. The appraisers fixed the value of defendant Wright’s property at $850, and the value of Hunter’s property at $2,150. The verdict of the jury on the appeal in the district court, in the Wright case, was…