Commonwealth v. Lovell

CULLEN, Commissioner.

The Commonwealth of Kentucky, Department of Highways, appeals from a *22judgment awarding the appellees approximately $18,000 as damages in the condemnation of a strip of land of about eight acres, through the appellees’ farm. The taking, for a nonaccess highway, severed the farm into two tracts. One, of 18 acres, contains all of the improvements, none of which was damaged. The other tract, of 74 acres, which was landlocked by the taking, had been used mainly for pasturage, with a few acres being under cultivation and a few in the soil bank program.

We agree with the…