Ark. State Highway Comm. v. Staples

Sam Robinson, Associate Justice.

Tbe issue bere is tbe correct location of the right-of-way of U.S. Highway 167 at a point where it joins about two acres of land belonging to appellees, D. L. Staples, Jr. and Nettie Lou Staples. The highway runs northeast and southwest at the place involved, bnt for convenience, we refer to the side on which appellees’ property, involved here, is located as the east side, and the opposite side as the west.

The appellant, Arkansas State Highway Commission, contends that the right-of-way extends 60 feet on each side of the centerline of the paved portion of the…