Mississippi State Highway Department v. Haines

Appellant, Mississippi State Highway Department, brought an eminent domain proceeding in the first district of Jones county, against appellees John Haines and Cola Haines, owners of the land sought to be condemned, and the Federal Land Bank of New Orleans, the mort gagee of said land, to condemn a right of way for the construction of highway No. 11 between the cities of Laurel and Hattiesburg. The proceeding was brought under chapter 26 of the Code of 1930 (the chapter on eminent domain) and the trial was had, in all substantia] respects, as prescribed in that chapter; except the court of…