Grangeville Highway District v. Ailshie

This action was brought by plaintiff to condemn a right of way for a state highway through defendants’ farm. Defendants denied the necessity for taking this particular land and alleged that the highway which had been in use for over forty years is as convenient to the public as the proposed highway, and that its use would inflict much less injury upon the defendants.

Defendants’ farm lies just east of the city of Grange-ville. The present route of the highway, designated as the “N” route, follows Grangeville streets to the northwest corner of defendants’ premises which it skirts on the north…