Arkansas State Highway Commission v. DeLaughter

J. Fred Jones, Justice.

This is an eminent domain case in connection with the construction of Interstate Highway No. 30 through Nevada County, Arkansas. The State Highway Commission took 30.66 acres for highway purposes diagonally, in a northeasterly-southwesterly direction, across a 409 acre tract belonging to Julius N. DeLaughter, Jr., leaving approximately 182 acres west of the right-of-way and approximately 196 acres east of the right-of-way. The west end of the tract fronts, for approximately one-half mile, on old Highway 67, or Bowden Road; and the east end of the tract is bounded by the…