Mississippi State Highway Commission v. Wear

The Mississippi State Highway Commission, appellant, filed this eminent domain proceeding against O. A. Wear and wife seeking a right-of-way, less the minerals, through the farm of Wear for the Natchez Trace Parkway, a limited access roadway. A special court of eminent domain awarded Wear damages in the sum of $12,-000 from which he appealed to the Circuit Court of Tishomingo County where he received a verdict in the amount of $18,500. The Highway Commission appeals *521from the judgment entered thereon, assigning as error the following:

1. That the lower court erred in the admission of testimony…