Ark. La. Gas Co. v. Lawrence

Jim Johnson, Associate Justice.

This condemnation appeal involves the admissibility of a plat or survey.

Appellant Arkansas Louisiana Gas Company filed its complaint in Hot Spring Circuit Court on June 4, 1963, against appellees Margaret and T. F. Lawrence seeking to acquire a fifty foot easement for a pipeline across appellees ’ property. Appellant deposited $176 into the registry of the court. The case was tried to a jury on June 29, 1964, and the jury returned a verdict for appellees in the sum of $800.00.

At trial one of the appellees testified that they owned a twenty acre parcel of land…