State Highway Commissioner v. Foster

On March 1, 1972, the State Highway Commissioner of Virginia, now State Highway and Transportation Commissioner of Virginia (condemnor), filed a certificate of taking and deposited the sum of *746$535 for transfer to the Commonwealth of title to 0.424 acre of the 1.16 acres of land owned by Aubrey C. Foster (condemnee). Condemnee’s land was needed for construction of a service road appurtenant to State Route 15/29 which was being converted into a limited-access highway. Terminating at the dairy farm owned by condemnee’s adjoining neighbor, the service road enabled condemnee and his neighbor to…