Commonwealth v. Moyers

CAMMACK, Judge.

In March, 1953, the Commonwealth, an appellant herein, sought in the McCracken County Court to condemn the appellees’ property in dispute, for a proposed highway between Kentucky Dam and Paducah. The commissioners appointed by the county court fixed the value of the land taken at $2,162.26; fencing $759; timber $300; and awarded nothing for incidental damages to the residue of the property. Since the exceptions filed by the appellees did not put in issue the Commonwealth’s authority to condemn the land, the county court entered a judgment on the commissioners’ recommendations…