State Highway Commission v. Assembly of God, Pentecostal

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment on a verdict awarding defendants $3,792.75 as compensation for the taking of a portion of defendants’ land for highway purposes. The defendants were also allowed $600 attorneys’ fees and costs.

The property taken consisted of a strip of land along the edge of an existing highway. The defendants maintain a large church building on the portion of the property not taken. There is no issue of severance damage, the sole issue presented by the pleadings being the true value of the land taken.

Plaintiff’s complaint contained the allegation that the true value of the…