State Ex Rel. Herman v. Hague

KRUCKER, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff-appellant, the State of Arizona, filed an action in eminent domain against defendants, Enos P. Schaffer, et al, to adjudicate the damage, if any, from the State’s limiting direct access to defendants’ seventeen parcels of land at Jaynes Station on the Casa Grande Highway. Defendants generally counterclaimed for damages for inverse eminent domain. The court, Judge Garrett presiding, ruled that as a matter of law, defendants were entitled to compensation and directed that jury trials be set to assess damages. Two trials were held on the damages issue. In the…