Arkansas State Highway Comm'n v. Stobaugh

George Rose Smith, Justice.

In this proceeding the highway department is condemning, for Interstate 40, part of the appellees’ improved residential lot in the city of Plumerville. The jury fixed the landowners’ compensation at $8,000. In this court the department contends that there is no substantial evidence to support the verdict.

The taking cuts diagonally across the lot, coming within about a foot of the front corner of the house. Stobaugh valued the property at $18,000 before the taking and at $6,000 after the taking. The highway department does not question the latter figure, which is…