Pryor v. Limestone County

Defendants in this proceeding are owners of a tract of land in Limestone county consisting of thirty-two hundred acres, through which runs what is known as the Bee Line highway for a distance of three miles. For improvement of the old highway, and when it became what is referred to as a “State project,” it was considered necessary to widen the road at this location and also elevate it to prevent overflow during the flood season, and to this end condemnation of a strip of land owned by defendants about two thousand feet in length, and comprising in all three acres, some of which contained…