Board of County Commissioners v. Hufford

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This is an appeal from a judgment entered in favor of the board of county commissioners of Kingman county against A. H. Hufford for $101 as the rental value of a twelve-acre tract of farming land which had been subjected to condemnation proceedings under R. S. 68-137 for a gravel pit. Following such condemnation, during the years 1924 and 1925 the county did not use the property for public purposes, and the defendant continued to farm the land as he had theretofore done under a lease from the owner of the property.

The county board’s cause of…