COMMONWEALTH DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS v. HALL


353 S.W.2d 548 (1962)

COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, Appellant, v. Lewis H. HALL et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

February 2, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John B. Breckinridge, Atty. Gen., H. D. Reed, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Charles E. Skidmore, Dept. of Highways, Frankfort, for appellant.

J. R. Layman, Paul M. Lewis, Hatcher & Lewis, Elizabethtown, for appellees.


WILLIAMS, Judge.

The appellees owned an undeveloped 19.65-acre tract of land adjacent to Highway 31-W just north of the city of Elizabethtown. The appellant condemned a strip across the front portion of the tract for the purpose of converting the road into a four-lane highway. The strip taken ranged from 66 to 96 feet in depth and was composed of 1.74 acres. There was left remaining 17.91 acres, with the same number of feet fronting the highway as existed before the...

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