Stephenson v. State

Appellant has taken this appeal from the judgment of the Marshall Circuit Court rendered on a jury’s verdict awarding him the sum of $1,400.00 in a condemnation action brought by appellee, the State of Indiana.

Appellee’s complaint alleged appellant was the owner of a forty acre tract of land in Marshall County, Indiana, and that 3.506 acres of such tract was sought to be taken for the improvement of U. S. Highway 31 in a by-pass around Plymouth, Indiana. The report of the appraisers fixed damages in the sum of $4,224.00. Upon exceptions being taken by the State of Indiana the cause was…