Mississippi State Highway Commission v. Roch

This case is before ns on appeal by the Mississippi State Highway Commission from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Pearl River County rendered in favor of W. R. Roche, Sr., and his wife, for the sum of $50,000, as compensation and damages for the taking of a strip of land, containing 26.06 acres, to be used for highway right-of-way purposes in the construction of a new interstate highway running through and across the appellees’ 191.36-acre tract of land situated about 2% miles east of Carriere and about five miles north of the Town of Picayune, in Pearl River County.

The record shows that…