Rucker v. Department of Transportation

Benham, Judge.

This is a condemnation case. The only issue on appeal is whether the trial court erred in giving the following jury instruction taken from State Hwy. Bd. v. Bridges, 60 Ga. App. 240, 243 (3 SE2d 907) (1939): “The ‘value’ of land taken in a proceeding of this kind against a small strip of land embraces not necessarily the ‘value’ of the strip of land taken as an isolated parcel of land, but such additional ‘value’ as attaches to it by reason of its connection with the adjacent land. . . .”

Appellee condemned , a .847-acre strip of land along the road frontage of appellant’s…