Parker v. State Ex Rel. Church

BERNSTEIN, Vice Chief Justice.

This is an appeal by Duane Parker and Babetta Jo Parker, his wife, and Port Parker and Ella M. Parker, his wife, (hereinafter referred to as “defendants”) from a judgment in a condemnation suit wherein damages were awarded the defendants for the taking by the State of the defendants’ rights of access along Black Canyon Highway, which damages the defendants consider inadequate. The case was tried to the court sitting without a jury.

The facts are, that in the early 1950s a new highway known as the Black Canyon Highway was constructed in Arizona. At the inception of…