Deremer v. State

This is an eminent domain proceeding. Plaintiffs, condemned owners of four commercially zoned lots abutting U. S. Plighway No. 34, sought damages for the State’s taking of a strip of land on the north end of the property and for restriction of access to the remaining property. The highway was widened and medians installed, the work being completed prior to trial of this case. Plaintiffs received a verdict and judgment for $31,000 and the State appeals. We affirm the judgment.

The court refused the State’s request to give the following instruction (requested instruction No. 5), the pertinent…