Mississippi State Highway Commission v. Dodson

Appellant condemned for a public highway less than one acre across a strip of land belonging to appellees. The jury assessed the damages at $850.00, and the Highway Commission appeals.

Appellant says the jury considered improper elements of damage. On the former appeal of this case to this court (203 Miss. 10, 33 So. (2d) 287, 288) one ground of reversal was that the record then showed that the jury in that trial took into consideration the inconvenience to the existing owner in driving his cattle and stock over, and in going to and from a part of his farm across the proposed highway. The…