COMMONWEALTH DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, v. KNIGHT


388 S.W.2d 120 (1965)

COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, Appellant, v. Dorothy KNIGHT 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., Reed D. Anderson, Atty., Madisonville, Harold K. Huddleston, Elizabethtown, for appellant.

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


PALMORE, Judge.

The highway department appeals from a $5,000 condemnation award to the appellee Dorothy Knight for about 10 acres taken from the back of her 47-acre farm in Larue County.

The case came to the Larue Circuit Court on the landowner's appeal from a county court judgment in the amount of $2,260. Hence the amount in controversy here is $2,740, and the department's appeal as a matter of right is technically proper. However, we note that none of its...

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