Commonwealth, Department of Highways v. Butler

OSBORNE, Judge.

This is a condemnation case. The highway department undertook to straighten Ky. 61 in Green County. Old Ky. 61 bisected appellees’ farm while making a rather sharp turn and then crossed a river at the edge of appellees’ property. The new road will run straight through appel-lees’ property and cross the river on a new bridge. As a result, appellees’ 174-acre farm, which was previously divided into two sections, one of 32 acres and one of *799142 acres, will now be divided into three sections; the 142-acre section, a section containing a little over nine acres between the old…