Ark. State Highway Comm. v. Union Planters Natl. Bank

This is an eminent domain proceeding by which the State Highway Commission seeks to condemn the necessary property rights to enable it to convert an existing highway across the appellees’ farm lands into a controlled-access facility. See Act 383 of 1953; Ark. Stats. 1947, Title 76, Ch. 22. In asking the jury for an award of substantial damages the landowners relied mainly upon the fact that their plantation will be effectively cut in two, lengthwise, by the new thoroughfare, since they will be prohibited from crossing it at any point along its three-mile passage over their property. The jury…