Frenel v. Commonwealth Department of Highways

MOREMEN, Judge.

This is the second appeal by a land owner from judgments entered in a condemnation suit initiated by the Department of Highways. The opinion in the first appeal may be found in Ky., 331 S.W.2d 710.

Appellant owns about 23 acres of land situated on U. S. Highway 27 between Somerset and Burnside. The Department of Highways is enlarging the present two-lane road into a four-lane divided highway. The land being taken amounts to about 2.63 acres, 2.43 of which is being condemned for highway purposes and the remaining .2 of an acre for easements through which to extend drainage pipe.…