State Ex Rel. State Highway Commission v. Cooper

MB. JUSTICE JOHN C. HAEBISON,

delivered Opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal by the State Highway Commission from a judgment rendered pursuant to a jury verdict in an action in eminent domain brought in the district court of Sweet G-rass County, Judge Nat Allen presiding. The State instituted the action to condemn 12.6 acres of respondents’ land for construction of a county secondary road of .9 miles in length. The judgment awarded the sum of $13,000 for the land acquired plus $27,050 for depreciation to the remainder and is appealed following the trial court’s denial of a motion for a new…