State ex rel. Road Commission v. Hooper

ELLETT, Justice.

The appellant owned a strip of land 1,630 feet long by 33 feet wide upon which it had constructed a concrete canal and a twelve foot service roadway. The respondent constructed a freeway over and across the appellant’s land and in doing so condemned 7[4 feet of the roadway for a distance of 270 feet. This left only 4i/£ feet for travel upon the road thus effectively destroying it for vehicular traffic.

The trial court, sitting without a jury, awarded $450 for the land taken but gave nothing as severance damages, and this appeal is from the failure to award severance damages…