Legal Opinion

Ark. State Highway Comm. v. Bingham

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided March 28, 1960No. 5-2016PublishedCited by 36 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Paul Ward, Associate Justice.

This appeal presents to this Court for solution an important and far-reaching question. Briefly stated the question is: Is the loss to an owner of land abutting a public highway occasioned by a diversion of traffic a compensable loss? The essential and undisputed facts posing the above question and presenting the background out of which it arose are substantially as hereinafter set out.

Sometime prior to 1954 the Arkansas State Highway Commission (hereinafter referred to as the “Commission”) acquired a right-of-way from Little Rock to Benton for the purpose of…

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2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Iowa State Highway Commission v. SmithSupreme Court of Iowa · 1957
  2. Muse v. Mississippi State Highway CommissionMississippi Supreme Court · 1958
  3. City of Fort Smith v. Van ZandtSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1938
  4. Blumenstein v. City of Long BeachCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1956
  5. State v. FoxWashington Supreme Court · 1958

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3Cited by36 opinions

  1. Hendrickson v. StateSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1964
  2. State Ex Rel. State Highway Commission v. MeierSupreme Court of Missouri · 1965
  3. Stefan Auto Body v. State Highway CommissionWisconsin Supreme Court · 1963
  4. Department of Public Works & Buildings v. Wilson & Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1975
  5. Moses v. State Highway CommissionSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1964

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