Speight v. Newport

OPINION

PURYEAR, Judge.

This is a condemnation suit wherein the Commissioner, acting for and on behalf of the State of Tennessee, acquired 9.70 acres of land in Warren County, Tennessee, for the purpose of relocating a portion of U. S. Highway 70 near the City limits of the City of McMinnville.

The only question presented for determination by the trial Court was the amount of compensation to be paid to the owners, W. T. Newport and wife, Lillian Newport, for the taking of said land.

The case was tried before the Circuit Judge and a jury on June 21, 1972, as a re-suit of which trial the jury…