State Roads Com. of Md. v. Novosel

In a condemnation suit brought by the State Roads Commission to acquire a strip of land to widen the Revell Highway, the jury, after viewing the site and hearing testimony, made its inquisition and awarded the lessees of the property, Collier and wife, $8500, and the owners of the reversionary interest, Novosel and wife, $22,000. From judgment entered upon the jury’s award, this appeal was taken by the Commission.

The area involved contains about .369 acres and was occupied and used by the Colliers as a restaurant and packagé liquor store on the north side of the Revel Highway about two miles…