In Re Appropriation of Easement for Highway Purposes

This is an appeal on questions of law from a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas of Richland County. The facts briefly are as follows:

L. C. Mabee and Doris E. Mabee, who are the appellants in this action, were the owners of certain real estate in Springfield Township, Richland County, Ohio, and the Shiloh Savings Bank Company, Shiloh, Ohio, also named in the proceeding, had a mortgage upon said premises. The Director of Highways of the state of Ohio desired to acquire an easement in a portion of the premises and accordingly entered on the journal of the Department of Highways a finding that…