State Ex Rel. State Highway Commission v. Williams

McDOWELL, Presiding Judge.

This is a suit in condemnation brought in the Circuit Court of Barry County, March' 7, 1950, to acquire right-of-way for a supplementary state highway. The cause was transferred, by change of venue, to Newton County, where it was tried before a jury, resulting in a verdict and judgment for $800 damages in favor of defendants. Plaintiff appealed.

The petition seeks to condemn 3.76 acre's of defendants’ land for the purpose of widening an existing road which crosses defendants’ 100 acre tract of land running from the northwest to the southeast, a distance of 2,369 feet.…