Commonwealth, Department of Highways v. Dycus

WADDILL, Commissioner.

The appeal is from a judgment awarding appellee $9,000.00 for the taking of fourteen acres of her Lyon County farm incident to the construction of the Western Kentucky Parkway. The jury found that the value of appellee’s farm before the taking was $35,650.00, the value after the taking was $26,650.00, a difference of $9,-000.00.

In view of testimony showing that ap-pellee’s farm was left with a valuable inter*344change location, appellant contends that the award is excessive. This contention is based on the fact that appellee had sold three and one-half acres approximately…