Little Rock Wastewater Utility v. Larry Moyer Trucking, Inc.

Robert H. Dudley, Justice.

The Arkansas State Highway Commission decided that Baseline Road in Pulaski County should be widened from two lanes to five lanes, and it knew that appellant, Little Rock Wastewater Utility, owned sewer lines that were located where the construction would take place. In anticipation of the earthwork and construction involved in widening the road, the Commission, acting through the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department, entered into a contract with the Little Rock Wastewater Utility to relocate Utility’s sewer lines. In this agreement, dated August 12, 1988,…