Commonwealth, Department of Highways v. Boone

HILL, Judge.

This is an appeal by the Department of Highways of this Commonwealth from a judgment in a condemnation action to acquire right-of-way for construction of the Bluegrass Parkway and for relocation of a portion of a county road.

Prior to the taking, the appellees owned a farm of approximately 385 acres some eight and one-half miles west of Bardstown, Kentucky, on Kentucky Highway 733, a blacktop highway known as the Boston-Bellwood Road. Highway 733 bisected the farm with approximately 140 acres north of the road, 105 acres of which was in young timber and not very valuable and 35…