State v. Coffield

ARCHER, Chief Justice.

This is a condemnation suit instituted by the State against H. H. Coffield to condemn six tracts of land for highway purposes. Special Commissioners awarded Coffield $3,306.

On trial before the County Court, without a jury, Coffield was awarded a judgment for damages totaling $10,932.30, and it is from this judgment the appeal is taken.

The appeal is based on .four points of error and are that the Court erred in awarding severance damages to the lands remaining in Coffield’s tracts of about 800 acres respectively after the taking of the right of way, because there was no…