Arkansas State Highway Comm'n v. Welter

Conley Byrd, Justice.

On the first appeal of this case, Arkansas State Highway Commission v. Welter, 247 Ark. 23, 444 S. W. 2d 65 (1965), we reversed a $23,000 verdict because all the landowners’ witnesses had compared the values of the lots in the landowner’s paper subdivision to the sales of lots in fully developed subdivisions containing curbs, gutters and all utilities. After the date of our mandate, the landowners consummated a $50,000 sale of a one acre tract to Franks Oil Company. At the commencement of the present trial, the landowners waived all rights to severance damages. The trial…