Arkansas State Highway Comm. v. Kaufman

George Rose Smith, Justice.

In 1964, the appellees, Herman Kaufman and Nathan Gordon, acquired a 3,-775-acre tract of land in Conway county, with the intention of eventually using it as a cattle ranch. Two years later the Highway Commission brought this action to condemn two parcels in the tract, one of 15.53 acres and the other of 8.29 acres, for use in the construction of Interstate Highway 40. The jury fixed the landowners’ compensation at $35,000, of which not less than $32,000 must be apportioned under the evidence to the larger parcel. For reversal the Commission contends that the…