Bunch v. State Highway & Transportation Commissioner

On August 28, 1973, the State Highway Commissioner of Virginia, now the State Highway and Transportation Commissioner of Virginia (Highway Commissioner), filed in the Circuit Court of the City of Nansemond, now the Circuit Court of the City of Suffolk, a petition in accordance with Title 25, Chapter 1.1 and Title 33.1, Chapter 1, Article 7 of the Code to obtain by condemnation certain property owned by Ophelia Bunch, widow, and Lewis M. Bunch and Betty M. Bunch, husband and wife. Upon the death of Ophelia Bunch, who owned a life estate in the property, the proceeding continued against Lewis…