Mississippi State Highway Commission v. Reddoch

Appellant brought an eminent domain proceeding against appellees in the county court of Jones county, to condemn a right of way for a public highway over their lands. There was a trial in the county court, resulting in a verdict and judgment in the sum of $675. Prom that judgment appellant appealed to the Circuit Court on the record made in the county court. In the county court the statutory instruction prescribed in section 1491, Code of 1930, to be given in eminent domain proceedings had before a justice of the peace and a jury was given. Other ■ instructions were asked, and refused by the…