STATE v. SMITH ET UX.

No. 29,390.

237 Ind. 72 (1957)

143 N.E.2d 666

STATE OF INDIANA v. SMITH ET UX.

Supreme Court of Indiana.

Filed June 28, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin K. Steers, Attorney General, Richard G. Stewart and Frank Haupt, Deputy Attorneys General, and Montgomery & Montgomery, of Seymour, for appellant.

Mellen & Mellen, of Bedford, and Branaman & Markel, of Brownstown, for appellees.


BOBBITT, J.

Appellant filed in the Lawrence Circuit Court an action to acquire for highway purposes a strip of appellees' land, from 100 to 105 feet in width and 1,355 feet long, containing 3.185 acres, more or less.

Both parties filed exceptions to the award of the appraisers and the issues so raised were tried before a jury, on a change of venue to the Jackson Circuit Court. From a verdict awarding damages in the sum of $5,500, together with interest at...

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