Gibbs v. Oklahoma Turnpike Authority

CORN, Justice.

Plaintiff, Oklahoma Turnpike Authority, filed suit to condemn certain described real property (13.77 acres), in Creek county, naming several individual defendants as parties cláiming ownership, or some interest in the land to be condemned. Appropriate proceedings resulted in appointment of commissioners who adjudged the taking-necessary and required for the condemner’s purposes, "and fixed the damages for such taking at $5,700. Plaintiff filed objections to the commissioners’ report and demand for jury trial. Defendants filed answer and exceptions, alleging their ownership of…