State ex rel. Commissioner of the Department of Transportation ex rel. Davidson County v. Vanatta

OPINION

CANTRELL, Judge.

The question on this appeal can be reduced to this: When in an eminent domain case the State takes property fronting on the street and destroys the owner’s access to the remainder, what burden does the owner have with respect to reestablishing the access?

Prior to November 30, 1982, the defendants, Jerry N. Vanatta, and wife, Jessie Huskins Vanatta, owned an improved lot on the Clarksville Highway in Nashville. The lot fronted one hundred feet on the highway and contained a building out of which the defendants ran a small manufacturing business. The owners lived in a…