Commonwealth, Department of Highways v. Arnett

CLAY, Commissioner.

In this highway condemnation case the jury awarded the landowners $25,000. Appellant’s principal contention is that the valuation testimony was incompetent.

*763Appellees owned a farm of approximately 200 acres which was bisected by Kentucky Highway 134. For the building of the new highway the Commonwealth took 12 acres through the farm, which left 105 acres on one side and 83 on the other. The new road will deprive appellees of direct access from the part of the farm on which there are improvements to the other part which consists of the best farmland.

There is no real…