State Highway Board v. Jamac Corporation

The potential allocation of damages from highway condemnation brought a boundary dispute into focus. Thereupon the highway board brought this equitable declaratory judgment action to determine the precise extent of its obligation to compensate each landowner. The lower court, in response to the petition, went ahead to hear evidence and make findings, and determined the boundaries on all sides of the disputed piece, even , though the highway taking did not dislocate every bound.

The piece of land involved is a small parcel conveyed from the midst of a larger holding that entirely surrounds it.…