Commonwealth, Department of Highways v. Frazier

WILLIAMS, Judge.

The Commonwealth of Kentucky, Department of Highways, found it necessary to condemn about five and one-half acres of appellees’ land for the construction of a portion of a public highway. A Magoffin Circuit Court jury awarded the appellees a verdict of $8,000. From a judgment entered on that verdict this appeal is prosecuted.

The appellees’ farm consisted of approximately 175 acres, eight of which were tillable bottom land and the remainder hill land. The farm was two and one-half miles from Salyersville and was serviced by a gravel road to the nearest surfaced road a mile and…