Legal Opinion
Commonwealth, Department of Highways v. Gardner
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Decided March 24, 1967PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CULLEN, Commissioner.
The Commonwealth of Kentucky, Department of Highways, appeals from a judgment awarding the appellee landowners $2630 as damages for property taken by condemnation for highway purposes.
The condemnation took a triangular parcel of 4.48 acres from the western tip of the appellees’ farm, to be used as right of way for a limited-access interstate highway. As a part of the highway project a county road on which the farm abutted was to be closed at the right-of-way line of the new highway, thus cutting off the ap-pellees’ closest route of travel westward to U. S. Highway No. 31…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Commonwealth, Department of Highways v. TyreeCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1963
- Department of Highways v. JacksonCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1957
- West Kentucky Coal Co. v. Commonwealth, Department of HighwaysCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1963
- Commonwealth, Department of Highways v. HerndonCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1964
- Commonwealth, Department of Highways v. NapierCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1965
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3Cited by4 opinions
- E-470 Public Highway Authority v. JagowColorado Court of Appeals · 2001
- Commonwealth, Department of Highways v. CarlisleCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1969
- Commonwealth, Department of Highways v. NoeCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1968
- Commonwealth, Department of Highways v. CarlisleCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1969