Department of Highways & Public Works v. Gamble

This is a condemnation suit brought in the county court of Moore county, under chapter 867 of the Private Acts of 1921, by State of Tennessee department of highways and public works, and R. B. Setliff, road commissioner of Moore county, against the defendants in error, certain landowners, to condemn a right of way 50 feet wide through defendants’ lands for the construction of state highways Nos. 15 and 55 in Moore county; the purpose being to take the county highway which was not wide enough and construct out of it a state highway by condemning land on each side sufficient to make the road 50…