State v. Calkins

The State of Washington, seeking to appropriate 4.2 acres of the defendants’ land, brought an action against defendants in March, 1956. In June, 1956, trial was had to determine just compensation, and the jury returned a verdict in the sum of nineteen thousand dollars. The State gave timely notice of appeal from the jury’s award. On January 11, 1957, after appeal briefs had been filed by both the State and the defendants, and while the appeal was pending in the supreme court, the State sent a letter to the Grant county clerk, transmitting a warrant in the sum of $19,096.40, the amount of the…