Department of Public Works & Buildings v. Dixon

Petitioner, the Department of Public Works and Buildings, appeals from the judgment of the Circuit Court of Williamson County in the amount of $16,000, entered upon a jury verdict in an action to condemn land owned by defendants, Don and Dorris Frey. The jury found the value of the land taken to be $4,000, and the damage to land not taken to be $12,000.

The evidence shows that defendants owned a 115 acre farm, that petitioner took 16.08 acres for the right of way of a highway and 1.5 acres for effecting a change in the channel of a creek, the change in the creek being made in order to better…