Mississippi State Highway Commission v. Peterson

*65The State Highway Commission instituted this proceeding against the appellees, B. B. Peterson and Wife, Mrs. Myrtle Peterson, to condemn in a special court of eminent domain a small strip of land off the east side of an 87-acre tract of land in Winston County, on which the appellees resided. They owned a total of 160 acres of land but the land other than the 87-acre tract was located in another county, near but- not adjacent to, the 87-acre tract oh which they lived. The tract sought to be condemned consisted of 1.24 acres and varied in width from about 35 feet at the end in the northeast…