State v. Creola Investment Corporation

MERRILL, Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment of condemnation of 42.87 acres of land for a highway right of way in which the amount of damages in favor of the appellee-landdwner was set at $55,000. A motion for a new trial was overruled.

The land involved was necessary to construct a highway interchange on a limited access highway now being built through Mobile County, known as Interstate 65. The land is located north of Mobile just outside a little community known as Pennsylvania. The 42.87 acres taken include 2,010 feet of highway frontage on the existing four-lane, paved U. S. Highway 43.

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