Corns v. Transportation Cabinet, Department of Highways

OPINION OF THE COURT

JOHN STANLEY HOFFMAN, Special Justice.

We are called upon to decide whether or not the Court of Appeals abused its discretion by granting a writ of prohibition in a highway condemnation case prohibiting the Franklin Circuit Court Judge, Hon. Ray Corns, (“the respondent Judge”) from enforcing an order requiring the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Transportation Cabinet, Department of Highways, (“the Commonwealth”) to deposit with the circuit court clerk, to the credit of those whose land was being condemned, $10,516,217.00 found by a special court-appointed mineral appraiser to be…