Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co. v. Verser

Lyle Brown, Justice.

Appellant Arkansas Louisiana Gas Company by eminent domain acquired a right-of-way across 158 acres of land belonging to M. H. Verser and wife, appellees. Appellant poses three points for reversal and we shall successively list and discuss them

Point I. The court erred in allowing testimony of damages by way of alleged trespass outside the right-of-way described in the taking. No answer alleging special damages was filed. The right-of-way description set out in the complaint of taking described a strip sixty feet in width, reverting to forty feet after construction. Over…