State Highway Commission v. Danielsen

This is an action in eminent domain filed in the fifteenth judicial district, Roosevelt County. The plaintiff-appellant is the Montana State Highway Commission. Defendants are owners of property sought to be condemned for purposes of constructing a new highway between the towns of Poplar and Brockton.

The background of the case is as follows:

There is currently a highway between Poplar and Brockton which has been in existence for twenty-five years. The Highway Commission first determined to build the new facility along what we shall refer to as the Middle Route. The record reveals that this…