Mississippi State Highway Commission v. Finch

The Commission filed in the County Court of Forrest County its petition for the condemnation of .55 of an acre of the Finch land for the purpose of relocating and reconstructing U. S. Highway No. 49, a part of Federal Aid Project No. F-008-2(4) near Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The petition described its powers to relocate, etc., the highway and to condemn the necessary land “including the right to provide limited access facilities where deemed necessary.” In paragraph 5 it described the land sought to be condemned without reference in that paragraph to any access rights. It made the…