State Highway Department v. Thompson

Nichols, Presiding Judge.

In both cases, the State Highway Department was condemning strips of land owned by the condemnees for highway purposes, and in both cases the remaining property not taken would be in two sections divided by limited-access highways, which would necessitate the condemnees having to travel to an overhead bridge which crossed such limited-access road in order to move from one section of their property to the part cut off by the limited- access road. In both cases, the condemnees appealed the amount of the award of the special master to the jury and in each case, after…