Arkansas State Highway Commission v. Hampton

Conley Byrd, Justice.

Appellant Arkansas State Highway Commission brings this appeal from a jury verdict and judgment for $20,000 following the taking of 29.59 acres out of 130.59 acres owned by appellees.

Appellant urges that the trial court erred in permitting the landowners’ witnesses to testify that their values were based upon this land having public access without showing that there was public access to the property, and in not striking the testimony of appellees ’ expert witnesses after appellees failed to show there was public access to the property.

One of the landowners and appellees’…