Headdon v. State Highway Department

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Chief Justice Bonham.

The State Highway Department, in the exercise of its statutory powers which govern its actions in the matter of building, laying out and widening roads and highways, decided to widen the highway commonly known as Rosewood Drive, Route 16 in the County of Richland. In pursuit of this purpose it became- necessary to secure a right-of-way, seventy-five feet in widfh from adjacent property owners; among these was G. M. Headdon, who owned a lot having a width of eighty-five feet on its front facing the highway, where his residence…