State Ex Rel. State Highway Commission v. Gray

OPINION

SISK, Justice.

The State Highway Commission has appealed from the judgment in a condemnation action in which a jury awarded $30,-000 to defendants.

Defendant, John Gray, was the owner in fee of one tract of land on the south side of Railroad Boulevard in Deming, New Mexico. Gray was also the lessee, from the Southern Pacific Railroad, of a tract of land nearly opposite the fee land and on the north side of Railroad Boulevard. The two tracts, separated by the street, were used by Gray in the conduct of his business. Improvements on the fee land included an office building and sales,…