State Highway Commission v. Brown

The appellant, the state highway commission, instituted eminent domain proceedings under chapter 26, Code of 1930, in the county court of Lee county, seeking to condemn certain land owned by Mrs. Jane D. Brown for the purpose of constructing United States highway No. 45 across said land. .There was a verdict in that court for eight thousand dollars in favor of appellees. The case was appealed to the circuit court, and, upon a trial de novo, there was a verdict and judgment for nine thousand dollars against the state highway commission, from which latter judgment it prosecutes an appeal here.

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