City of Three Forks v. State Highway Commission

The defendant, State Highway Commission, appeals from a judgment in the sum of $32,500 together with interest and costs, entered by the district court of the eighteenth judicial district with a jury, in favor of the plaintiff, the City of Three Forks. The court further awarded defendant the fee simple interest in the land owned by plaintiff. The appeal was taken after an order of the trial court denied defendant’s motion for a new trial.

This action arose out of the construction of an interstate highway on land owned by the City of Three Forks without the same being condemned, nor grant of…