Commonwealth, Department of Highways v. Hoskins

CATINNA, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Leslie Circuit Court setting aside an order of the Board of Claims denying Walter and Laura Hoskins relief upon a petition filed with the Board and remanding their claim with directions that the Board enter an order awarding them $8,500.

Walter Hoskins and Laura Hoskins, his wife, owned a tract of land on Stinnett Creek. The Highway Department owned a right-of-way across the Hoskinses’ property upon which it constructed a blacktop road.

At the time Hoskins conveyed the right-of-way to the Department of Highways, he operated a…