Ark. State Highway Comm. v. Union Planters Natl. Bank

333 S.W.2d 904 (1960)

ARKANSAS STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION, Appellant,

v.

UNION PLANTERS NATIONAL BANK, Trustee Under the Will of D. B. Woollard et al., Appellees.

No. 5-2004.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

March 28, 1960.

Rehearing Denied May 2, 1960.

W. R. Thrasher and Bill B. Demmer, Little Rock, for appellant.

Hale & Fogleman, West Memphis, for appellees.

GEORGE ROSE SMITH, Justice.

This is an eminent domain proceeding by which the State Highway Commission seeks to condemn the necessary property rights to enable it to convert an existing highway across the appellees' farm lands into a controlled-access…