Mississippi State Highway Commission v. Nixon

Bamer Nixon, widow of James Nixon, Jr., supposedly owned four acres of land, in a rectangular shape, on which she lived, in Jasper County, Mississippi. This property lay in the path of the right-of-way for Interstate Highway No. 59.

*639The Mississippi State Highway Commission instituted eminent domain proceedings in a justice of the peace court of the county, naming Bamer Nixon and seven others, including Linen-White Corporation, a domestic corporation, the assignee and holder of a deed of trust and notes on the property, given by Bamer Nixon originally to United States Shell Homes, Inc., and…