BOARD OF COUNTY COM'RS OF DONA ANA COUNTY v. SYKES

No. 7458.

394 P.2d 278 (1964)

74 N.M. 435

BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF DONA ANA COUNTY, New Mexico, Petitioner-Appellant, v. R.F. SYKES and Richard E. Sykes, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

July 27, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Earl E. Hartley, Atty. Gen., Hadley Kelsey, Joseph L. Droege, John C. Worden, Oliver G. Ricketson, Neil Stillinger, George D. Sheldon, Richard T. Whitley, E.E. Chavez, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., Santa Fe, Dan Sosa, Jr., Las Cruces, for appellant.

J.D. Weir, J.R. Crouch, Las Cruces, for appellees.


CASWELL S. NEAL, District Judge.

This action was filed by the Board of County Commissioners of Dona Ana County (hereinafter called plaintiffs), to acquire, by condemnation, certain lands from the defendant-appellees Sykes, et al. (hereinafter referred to as Sykes), for the purpose of widening State Road 227, originally 25 feet wide, to 60 feet in width. For such purpose, land totaling 0.587 acre, of the agreed value of $1,000.00 per acre was condemned, for which Sykes...

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