Department of Transportation v. Tilley

LEWIS, Judge.

This cases arises from a land condemnation hearing in which plaintiff sought to take a portion of defendants’ property in order to widen a part of Highway 15-501 in Chatham County. Defendants appeal from a verdict in which the jury awarded them $13,500 as just compensation for the taking.

Defendants own a 26.98-acre tract of land in Chatham County. Russett Road, a private road built for the University of North Carolina Center for Autistic Children, traverses this tract, separating it into a 23.99-acre northern tract (“the Northern Tract”) and a 2.99-acre southern tract (“the…