Arkansas State Highway Commission v. Lemley

I find it necessary to dissent, for a second time, from a reversal of this case and from its fourth remand for a fifth trial to determine just compensation for a taking on September 29, 1966. The four verdicts by different juries have fixed the landowner’s recovery at $13,000, $12,000, $14,500 and $15,000. See 247 Ark. 201, 444 S.W. 2d 692; 250 Ark. 186, 464 S.W. 2d 605; 252 Ark. 549, 479 S.W. 2d 855. We held on the first appeal that the testimony then before the court was insufficient to show a unity of use for farming purposes between the 120 acres in Section 33 and the 40 acres of…