Long v. State ex rel. Department of Highways

HALLEY, Justice. ■

For convenience, the plaintiffs in error will be referred to as the Longs or defendants and the defendant in error as.the State or plaintiff.

The State was constructing a State Highway in Kiowa County and needed for a part of the highway, a strip of land approximately 1.43 acres in area off the east side of a quarter section of land owned by the defendants. It also needed the temporary right to borrow-dirt, rock, sand, gravel or any other road, building material from a tract of land-in this same quarter section which abutt,ed upon the highway. Proper proceedings were…