Bainbridge v. State Road Department of Florida

WIGGINTON, Judge.

Appellants, who were defendants in an eminent domain proceeding brought by the State Road Department, have appealed! from a final judgment based upon a jury’s verdict awarding compensation for a seventeen foot strip of land acquired for state road purposes. The principal contention of appellants is that the trial court erred in denying their motion for new trial.

Title to the parcel of land in question was taken at the outset of the proceeding under the declaartion of taking procedure provided for by the statutes of this state.1 The record before this court does not contain…