COMMONWEALTH v. LYONS


364 S.W.2d 336 (1963)

COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, Appellant, v. Pat LYONS et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

January 25, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John B. Breckinridge, Atty. Gen., H. D. Reed, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Paul E. Hunley, Phillip K. Wicker, Dept. of Highways, Frankfort, for appellant.

H. R. Wilhoit, Grayson, for appellees.


CULLEN, Commissioner.

In connection with a project for widening and straightening U. S. Highway No. 60 near the city of Olive Hill, the Department of Highways condemned a triangular shaped strip of land, 10 feet wide at one end and 29 feet wide at the other, along the 105-foot frontage of residential property of Pat and John Lyons. The jury in circuit court awarded damages of $8000. The department has appealed from the judgment entered on that verdict.

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