State v. Heltborg

This is an appeal from a judgment entered pursuant to five verdicts returned by a jury in an action by the State Highway Commission acquiring right of way through four adjoining ranch properties. The defendants were the four owners and one lessee of the ranches.

Commissioner awards were made on each parcel, but the State, being dissatisfied, sought a jury trial on the amount of the awards. The amounts of the Commissioner awards are substantially the same as the amounts of the jury awards.

One parcel of right of way through the Hoskyn ranch was twenty-five acres of hay land with an award of…