State Ex Rel. Road Commission v. Williams

CALLISTER, Justice.

This is an appeal by the State of a. condemnation award of $34,525 (market value of 50.07 acres condemned, $7,850.50,. and severance damages, $26,674.50) to the defendant-landowners, the Prestwiches, upon the ground that the trial court erred in submitting the issue of severance damages to the jury.

Defendants owned a cattle ranch consisting of approximately 1800 acres, situated west and north of Kanarraville, Utah. Their property consisted of three' noncon-tiguous parcels identified as the north, center, and south fields, which the evidence • indicated were developed as a…