State Ex Rel. Moore v. Lawson

This is an appeal from a judgment in a condemnation action. The jury awarded Wendell and Wilma Jean Platt $13,000 as compensation for a strip of land taken to complete the construction of Interstate Highway 84 through Caldwell, Idaho. Raymond and Betty Lawson were contract sellers of the property, and it appears that they were only nominal parties to the action. Believing the judgment to be inadequate, the Platts appealed.

We are faced with a threshold problem of appellate jurisdiction. The judgment was filed on June 19,1980, allowing the state to acquire certain lands and an easement upon…