State ex rel. Department of Highways v. Givens

BOLIN, Judge.

This appeal presents the sole question of the proper award to be made to the defendant for his property which was expropriated by plaintiff for the construction of a highway. The parcel of land so taken was approximately eighty-one feet by sixty-one feet, and was located within the corporate limits of Bastrop, and after the taking, the defendant retained a strip of land approximately eighty feet by fifty-nine feet. There were no improvements on the property, and the only issue is the total compensation due defendant for that portion of the land actually expropriated, together…