State Highway Department v. Thompson

Deen, Judge.

In this condemnation case the State Highway Department took 6.944 acres of land from a 75-acre tract, splitting the tract of land and depriving a part of it of its former road access. The assignments of error are directed to the italicized portion of the following instructions: “There are two kinds of damages involved in this case. One is direct or actual damages, and that is damages that result directly from the taking of the defendant’s land. The State has taken the defendant’s land for use as a road, and the State must pay him for that land the fair market value thereof at the…