Plummer v. Director, Department of Conservation & Economic Development

Pursuant to the provisions of Code §§ 25-120 et seq, the Director of the Department of Conservation and Economic Development, on *617behalf of the Commonwealth of Virginia, appellee, filed on January 4, 1967 a single petition against a number of landowners to condemn twenty-three parcels of land in Grayson county for the purpose of creating Mt. Rogers State Park. An agreement was entered into between petitioner and the landowners by counsel and approved by the trial court that, instead of proceeding under the Public Parle Condemnation Act the procedure to be used would be that for acquiring…