STATE ROADS COM. OF MD. v. NOVOSEL

[No. 71, October Term, 1953.]

203 Md. 619 (1954)

102 A.2d 563

STATE ROADS COMMISSION OF MARYLAND v. NOVOSEL ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided February 10, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew W. Starratt, Jr., Special Attorney, with whom were Edward D.E. Rollins, Attorney General, Joseph D. Buscher, Special Assistant Attorney General, and James C. Morton, Jr., Special Attorney, on the brief, for the appellant.

Walter C. Mylander, Jr., with whom were Henry A. Mylander and Marshall A. Binder on the brief, for the owners of the reversionary interest.

Louis M. Strauss, with whom was John H. Hopkins, IV, on the brief, for the lessees.

The cause was argued before SOBELOFF, C.J., and DELAPLAINE, COLLINS and HENDERSON, JJ.


SOBELOFF, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

In a condemnation suit brought by the State Roads Commission to acquire a strip of land to widen the Revell Highway, the jury, after viewing the site and hearing testimony, made its inquisition and awarded the lessees of the property, Collier and wife, $8500, and the owners of the reversionary interest, Novosel and wife, $22,000. From judgment entered upon the jury's award, this appeal was taken by the Commission...

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