Department of Transportation v. Rowe

HORTON, Judge.

Joe C. Rowe, et al. (collectively, defendants) appeal from a jury verdict and judgment denying them any compensation for 11.411 acres of their land in Catawba County which the Department of Transportation (DOT) condemned on 26 June 1995 for a connector road. Prior to the taking, defendants Joe C. Rowe and wife, Sharon B. *208Rowe (the Rowes), and defendants Howard L. Pruitt, Jr., and wife, Georgia M. Pruitt (the Pruitts), owned 18.123 acres in Catawba County, which they purchased in December 1986. DOT determined that the benefits to defendants’ remaining 6.712 acres of property…