Barber & Bennett, Inc. v. State

The parties appeal from a judgment awarding $1,014,096.81 plus interest as damages for a partial taking of claimant’s property for highway purposes.

The claimant operated a feed mill business upon the premises with which we are here concerned. The improvements consisted of a three-story brick and frame warehouse erected in 1903 and subsequently adapted by the claimant to its business, and a complex of eight concrete silos with wooden storage cribs, added in 1956. In 1965, the State appropriated about one half of the claimant’s land in fee, and took a temporary easement over the remaining…