Arkansas State Highway Commission v. Flake

George Rose Smith, Justice.

The appellees own two parcels of land, used as a parking lot, at the intersection of Scott Street and Bridge Street (actually an alley) in Little Rock. In 1971 the Highway Corhmission, in the process of replacing the Main Street bridge across the Arkansas River, began the construction of a ramp within the Scott Street right of way. The raised ramp was designed to (and now does) occupy Scott Street for about two thirds of the appellees’ frontage along that street.

The landowners,., contending that the value of their land would be diminished by their partial loss of…