Smith v. State Highway Board

The defendant state highway board appropriated nearly five acres of land for the construction of Interstate Highway 89. The land taken is situated on both the east and west sides of U.S. Route 7 at its northernmost extremity where the highway intersects the international boundary between the United States and the Dominion of Canada.

The condemned parcels front on Route 7 and were carved out of an 82-acre farm. The farm similarly lies on both sides of the highway, and extends across the international line into the Province of Quebec. The land appropriated contained three structures. A building,…