MISS. STATE HIGHWAY COMM. v. ROGERS

No. 41237.

236 Miss. 800 (1959)

112 So.2d 250

MISSISSIPPI STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION v. ROGERS.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

May 25, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe T. Patterson, Atty. Gen., Matthew Harper, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson; Welch, Gibbes & Graves, Boyd & Holifield, Laurel, for appellant.

James D. Hester, George Maxey, Laurel, for appellee.


ETHRIDGE, J.

The Mississippi State Highway Commission filed a petition in the County Court for the First Judicial District of Jones County against appellee, C.B. Rogers, seeking to condemn a parcel of land owned by Rogers and comprising a total of 6.52 acres, for public purposes in the construction of new U.S. Highway 11, Interstate. The issue of damages for the taking was tried before a jury in the county court, which rendered...

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