Deer Valley Industrial Park Development & Lease Co. v. State Ex Rel. Herman

MOLLOY, Judge.

This is an appeal by the property owners from a judgment rendered in their favor in a condemnation action. The property involved in the “before” situation was a quarter section of land through which an existing highway (US Highway 60, 70 and 89) passed diagonally in a southeast-northwest direction. In this condemnation action the right-of-way was widened to a full 300-foot width, in order to permit a divided highway with two separate strips of pavement. Previously there had been a single strip of pavement carrying traffic in both directions.

In order to gain the full 300-foot…