Raymond v. State

The claimant seeks to recover damages alleged to have been sustained hy the tailing of his easement of access to a public highway known as Thompson Road, by the trespass or informal taking thereof hy the State in a 1950 highway project. The State admits the alteration of the highway, but maintains that it was only a change of grade which was within its right under a perpetual easement appropriated in 1943,' from claimant’s predecessor in title.

*45The pertinent legal question is, whether the State took any of claimant’s property for its 1950 project which it did not take and pay for in its 1943…