COMMONWEALTH, DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS v. WARD


388 S.W.2d 119 (1965)

COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, Appellant, v. Raymond WARD et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

March 12, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John B. Breckinridge, Atty. Gen., William A. Lamkin, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen.,

Harold K. Huddleston, Elizabethtown, Reed D. Anderson, Atty., Madisonville, for appellant.

Paul M. Lewis, Hatcher & Lewis, Elizabethtown, for appellees.


PALMORE, Judge.

The appellees owned a 102-acre farm fronting on the east side of old U.S. Highway 31W in Larue County. In this proceeding the highway department condemned a 15-acre strip running through it from north to south, leaving 67.5 acres on the west and 19.5 acres on the east. Access between the two parts of the farm will require a two-mile trip.

Witnesses for the landowners estimated the reduction in market value from a low of $10,500 to a high of...

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