Commonwealth, Department of Highways v. Strahan

CLAY, Commissioner.

In this condemnation case the Commonwealth appeals from a $4,500 judgment on the ground that incompetent and inadmissible evidence was admitted and the verdict was palpably excessive. The Commonwealth condemned a strip of land 17 feet wide and 365 feet long (0.14 of an acre) across the frontage of appellees’ 106-acre tract of land located in the City of Shepherdsville. There were no improvements on the property and most of it was idle land grown up in weeds, brush and timber.

This tract is on the south side of Kentucky Highway 44 just west of the Kentucky Turnpike. It is…