Peebles v. Canal Authority of Florida

JOHNSON, Judge.

This is an appeal from a final judgment in an eminent domain proceeding in which appellants, the condemnees, were awarded, pursuant to jury verdict, the sum of $27,-200.00 for land taken by appellee.

Appellee filed eminent domain proceedings against numerous parties for the taking of land to be used for the Eureka Reservoir. At the trial of this cause, it was established that appellants owned an L-shaped tract of land totalling approximately 117 acres, of which 60.37 acres were taken by appellee. Said sixty acres had a total frontage on the Oklawaha River of about 1,700 feet.…