State ex rel. Road Commission v. Dorrity

MAUGHAN, Justice:

In this matter the State condemned land for highway purposes. The land belonged to defendants, and the land taken by the State was so located as to make two parcels of defendants’ land where before there was one. The defendant D. W. Dorrity acted as his own counsel, the matter was tried to a jury, and the court rendered judgment on the verdict in favor of defendants and against plaintiff.

Plaintiff filed a motion for a new trial, or, in the alternative, for a remittitur. The grounds for the motion alleged that severance damages awarded by the jury were not supported by the…