Legal Opinion
Commonwealth, Department of Highways v. City of Winchester
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Decided March 29, 1968PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MILLIKEN, Judge.
This case involves the condemnation of public school property by the Department of Highways.
“The best laid schemes o’ mice and men gang aft a-gley * * *” and in this case the long range plans of the Winchester and Clark County school authorities were disrupted by the Highway Department when it condemned 2.37 acres from a 13.98 acre school tract for the construction of a four-lane highway, leaving 5.15 severed acres on one side of a deep cut and the school building on the other side. The jury awarded the school board $70,700.00 for the taking in conformity with the trial…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- United States v. CorsSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
- Commonwealth, Department of Highways v. SherrodCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1963
- Washington v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1954
- Town of Clarksville, Va. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1952
- United States v. State of ArkansasCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1947
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3Cited by6 opinions
- State v. Township of South HackensackSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1974
- Reorganized School District No. 2 v. Missouri Pacific RailroadMissouri Court of Appeals · 1973
- Board of Education v. Commonwealth, Department of HighwaysCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1975
- City of Tulsa v. Mingo School District No. 16Court of Civil Appeals of Oklahoma · 1977
- Religious of the Sacred Heart of Texas v. City of HoustonTexas Supreme Court · 1992
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