Mississippi State Highway Commission v. Deavours

This is an appeal in an eminent domain proceeding from the Circuit Court of Jasper County. Judgment was there rendered for the appellee in the amount of $6,500, but inasmuch as we have determined that the case should be reversed on other grounds, it is not necessary for us to discuss the assigned excessiveness of the judgment.

We are reversing this case because as a whole there was so much incompetent, irrelevant and immaterial evidence admitted over the objection of appellant, that it could not have been a fair trial. This evidence was calculated and could have been offered for no other…