COMMONWEALTH, DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS v. BASTON


371 S.W.2d 869 (1963)

COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, Appellant, v. Edward W. BASTON et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

October 25, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John B. Breckinridge, Atty. Gen., William A. Lamkin, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Patrick J. Dixon, Elizabethtown, for appellant.

L. M. Ackman, Williamstown, E. D. Weldon, Georgetown, William F. Threlkeld, Williamstown, for appellees.


PALMORE, Judge.

In the acquisition of right-of-way for an interstate highway (I-75) the appellant Highway Department condemned 25.18 acres through the center of a 102-acre dairy farm owned by the appellees Edward Baston and wife, leaving 37 acres and all the improvements on one side of the new highway and 39 acres without improvements on the other. A county court judgment reflecting a commissioners' award of $10,072 for the land taken and $14,448 for damage to the...

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