Mississippi State Highway Commission v. Daniels

This is an appeal by the Mississippi State Highway Commission, herein called Commission, from a circuit court judgment in an eminent domain case.

The Commission adopted and spread on its minutes a condemnation order declaring the necessity for the taking for public use a strip of appellees’ land for the construction of a part of Highway No. 49, known as Federal Aid Project No. F010-l(4).

Pursuant to the Commission’s application a special court of eminent domain was organized with a justice of the peace presiding. The application did not limit the taking with reference to whether the access…