Arkansas State Highway Commission v. Coffelt

Steele Hays, Justice.

This is the third appeal of a long standing dispute between the Arkansas State Highway Commission and Mrs. Bessie W. Coffelt involving the intersection of Coffelt Road and U.S. Highway 67. The background of the litigation is stated in depth in our opinion in Coffelt v. Arkansas State Highway Commission, 285 Ark. 314, 686 S.W.2d 786 (1985).

In 1955 the D’Angelos granted an easement for a freeway and frontage road across lands they owned in north Pulaski County where Highway 67 was to be constructed. The conveyance affected all rights of abutment from either side of the…