State Highway Commission v. Powell

The appellant, State Highway Commission of Mississippi, desired to obtain for right of way purposes a strip of land 100 feet in width through and across approximately 45 acres of farm land belonging to appellees along the proposed route of Highway No. 84 a few miles east of the City of Laurel in Jones County. To that end, an agent of the Commission was sent to negotiate the purchase of such right of way. The location of the highway through appellees’ farm separates the residence and bam from the field and pasture, and according to the testimony on behalf of appellees, they were unwilling at…