Wilkinson v. Coffee County

OPINION

SHRIVER, Judge.

The parties will be referred to as petitioners and defendant, as they appeared in the Court below.

*262This is an inverse condemnation case in which A. C. Wilkinson and wife contend that their means of ingress and egress to and from a 143 acre tract of unimproved timber land in Coffee County, Tennessee was destroyed by the construction of Interstate Highway 24 and the closing of the road leading to that property.

On December 31, 1969, petitioners instituted suit in the Circuit Court of Coffee County, Tennessee against Coffee County, pursuant to the provisions of Section…