Arkansas State Highway Comm'n v. Billingsley

Lyle Brown, Justice.

This is a highway condemnation case wherein the taking and construction for widening of an existing highway by the Arkansas State Highway Commission took most of the landowners’ frontage. The Commission appeals the award principally on the basis that access actually remained after the taking, therefore the blocking of the remaining access was not a compensable item.

• The subject property consists of a 25-aere tract adjoining State Highway 247 on the east side. The highway frontage is 808 feet.' The property is owned by the widow and children of O. E. Billingsley. It was…