State Road Commission v. McMurray

Woods, Judge:

Georgia McMurray, the owner of a lot of less than an acre in the village of Silverton, fronting on what is now a state highway, complains of a judgment of the circuit court of Jackson county entered on a verdict of a jury assessing damages to said property by reason of the widening of said highway.

In 1924, the State Road Commission took the road over for state purposes, and after service of notice on the landowner under section 138, chapter 6, Acts, 1923, improved the same, widening the old thirty-foot road to forty feet. In so doing they demanded a five-foot strip from Mrs.…