Arkansas State Highway Commission v. Conway Development Corp.

George Rose Smith, Justice.

The appellee is a nonprofit corporation organized to attract industry to Faulkner county. It owns two adjoining tracts of land, Tract A containing 178 acres and Tract B 140 acres. This suit was brought by the Highway Commission to condemn 15.81 acres in Tract B as a right-of-way for Interstate Highway 40. The jury fixed the value of the land at $20,000. The principal issue here is whether the court correctly allowed the jury to treat the land as two separate tracts in determining the benefits and damages resulting from the proposed impro.vement.

Tract A, roughly in…