State ex rel. Speight v. Mt. Carmel Center, Inc.

This case comes to this Court by grant of certiorari. In this opinion, the State of Tennessee ex rel. Charles W. Speight, Commissioner of Highways, will be referred to as petitioner, and Mt. Carmel Center, Inc., et al, as respondents.

The determinative issue now before the Court arises out of a condemnation suit filed by petitioner against respondents, to obtain land necessary for the construction of a public road. The jury, with Judge John R. Todd presiding, found the value of the land taken to- be $30,000.00, and incidental damages to the remainder to *487be $80,000.00. Judgment on the jury…