State v. Ward

This is a condemnation proceeding to acquire a right of way in Lewis county, near Centralia, for a limited access highway known as primary state highway No. 1.

The appellants own a farm through which the right of way will run. The state will acquire 5-2/10 acres, which will leave all of appellants’ farm buildings on a small tract of 5-1/10 acres on the easterly side of the proposed highway. Thirty-nine and five tenths acres of the farm will he to the west of it.

The plan of the proposed limited access highway includes a service road along the westerly edge of the right of way for use of the…