Barton v. State

HUNTLEY, Justice.

On this appeal we are asked to determine the extent, if any, of the State’s liability on a contract to provide highway access points, when those access points were closed by the State twenty-two years after the contract was consummated. Respondent State of Idaho entered into negotiations in 1953 with Louisa Murphy 1 to purchase a parcel of Murphy’s property in North Lewiston for highway construction purposes. Pursuant to negotiations, the parties entered into an agreement whereby the State would provide access to Murphy’s business properties from U.S. Highway 95 and would pay…