Wray v. Stvartak

Knepper, Judge.

This is an appeal from a jury verdict rendered in the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas. The jury found that appellees, John F. and Anna Stvartak, were entitled to a total of $97,200 from appellant, Jerry Wray, Director of Transportation, state of Ohio, as compensation for the appropriation of .163 acre of appellees’ property. For the reasons that follow, this court reverses the judgment of the trial court.

This case involves the appropriation of a strip of land along the length of appellees’ property that resulted from the widening of State Route 2 in Jerusalem Township.…