State v. Curtis

BARROW, Chief Justice.

This is a condemnation case brought by the State to acquire 21.104 acres together with a drainage easement of 1.199 acres out of a 77-acre tract for use in construction of an interstate highway. Judgment was entered on the jury verdict1 whereby appellee-landowners recovered the total sum of $41,018.60 less the sum of $32,622.00 which had been awarded by the Special Commissioners and deposited by State.

State asserts twenty-three assignments of error. Thirteen points complain of the introduction into evidence of a plat of a proposed subdivision of the 77-acre tract and the…