State, by Head v. Savage

CRANE WINTON, Justice. *

This case comes here on appeals by the state from five orders denying new trials. The trial court granted costs, expenses, and attorneys fees incurred by landowners in eminent domain proceedings initiated by the state in 1968 but dismissed in 1970 before awards were filed with the trial court. Subsequently, judgments were entered on those orders, and the state appealed therefrom. All appeals have been consolidated for consideration and disposition. For the reasons hereafter given, the judgments are reversed, and the causes remanded to the trial court with directions to…