State ex rel. State Highway Commission v. Recker

STEPHAN, Judge.

Defendants William and Dorothy Arbeiter appeal from a condemnation proceeding initiated by the State Highway Commission 1 in which a jury awarded them $92,500 in compensation for the taking of a portion of their real property. Defendants’ property, located on the west side of old State highway 21 in Jefferson County, was taken in order to widen and relocate part of the highway. The permanent taking involved 19 acres of the eastern portion of the 46 acre tract. Construction of the new highway caused 3.47 acres of the tract to be landlocked without access to any public way.…