Babcock v. State

—Reynolds, J.

Appeal by the iState from a judgment of the Court of Claims awarding claimant $10,680, plus interest, for the appropriation of respondents’ property in connection with the construction of the Kingston bypass. The appropriation involved consisted of a fee taking of 7.916 acres and a temporary easement of 8.255 acres. The Court of Claims, holding that the highest and best use of the land was for agricultural purposes and that the temporary easement taken had rendered the portion involved useless, awarded $4,592 for the fee taking and $4,788 for the land taken by the easement to…