Cox v. Mississippi State Highway Commission

PATTERSON, Chief Justice,

for the court:

J. T. Cox, Mary Katherine Cox and North Mississippi Savings & Loan Company appeal a jury award of $3500 in an eminent domain proceeding had in Bolivar County by the Mississippi State Highway Commission. The issue on appeal is whether the trial court erred in permitting the highway commission’s expert witness to testify concerning the results of a survey involving the average distance that single-family residences were set back from the highway in the vicinity of the property condemned.

*608The highway commission acquired approximately 0.33 acre of the 2.86…