Soclof v. State Road Department

WIGGINTON, Judge.

Appellants were defendants in an action of eminent domain brought by appellee State Road Department pursuant to the authority of Chapters 73 and 74, Florida Statutes, F.S.A., by which it sought to acquire *511a road right of way eighty feet wide across a parcel of land owned by appellants. Compensation for the taking of appellants’ land was awarded by the jury and confirmed by the entry of final judgment. It is from that judgment that this appeal is taken.

Appellants acquired a parcel of land in Escambia County on which they established a junk business in 1936. A railroad spur and…