Boone v. State Ex Rel. Department of Highways

BLACKBIRD, Justice.

Defendant in error, as plaintiff, commenced this action to condemn for highway purposes, residential premises in Ponca City, Oklahoma, containing .14 of an acre belonging to plaintiffs in error, who appeared therein as defendants. Said parties will hereinafter be referred to by their trial court designations.

The Report of the Commissioners appointed by the court to determine defendants’ damages from such appropriation of their property assessed them in their report at $792. Defendants then appealed from said report and demanded a jury trial to fix such damages.

After the…