DeBruhl v. State Highway & Public Works Commission

For the six years prior to 1948 petitioners were the owners of a lot on the south side of Druid Drive in the City of Asheville, fifty feet wide and about one hundred and forty-eight feet deep. Situate on the lot was a brick veneer house in which petitioners lived. Work for relocating and reconstructing U. S. Highways 19-23 through a section of West Asheville was begun under Project 9075 for the first lane by respondent in 1948. For this purpose respondent in 1949 purchased from petitioners for $4,700.00 a right of way across the back portion of their lot and the back part of their house on…