Arkansas State Highway Comm'n v. Littlefield

Lyle Brown, Justice.

Appellant, Arkansas State Highway Commission, condemned 0.31 acres out of a 6.40 acre tract belonging to appellees, A. B. and W. C. Littlefield, d/b/a Tri-County Oil Company. The crucial question on appeal is whether the coming of Interstate 40 influenced the before values introduced on behalf of the landowners.

The subject lands are located in the southeast corner of the 1-40 interchange at Alma. That is at the point in Crawford County where U. S. Highways 64 and 71 have converged for many years. The landowners are large-scale and long time distributors of oil and gas in…