Kentucky Trust Co. v. Commonwealth, Department of Highways

DAVIS, Commissioner.

A jury awarded the appellant-property owners $1,600 in this condemnation proceeding; the property owners appeal, asserting that the verdict is grossly inadequate, that the trial court erred in excluding competent evidence offered by appellants, and that ap-pellee’s counsel made an improper and illegal closing argument.

Before the taking the tract consisted of about 177 acres, located on the Scottsville Road, U. S. Highway 231, within the city limits of Bowling Green. One of the appellants acquired an undivided half interest in the entire tract in December 1962, at a…