BROCK v. STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION

No. 44,029

195 Kan. 361 (1965)

404 P.2d 934

ROBERT L. BROCK and EDWIN R. LINQUIST, Appellants, v. STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION OF KANSAS, Appellee, and RUTH O. RAGSDALE, Appellant, v. STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION OF KANSAS, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed August 19, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald L. Goodell, of Topeka, argued the cause, and Lester M. Goodell, Marlin S. Casey, Raymond Briman, Murray F. Hardesty, Wayne T. Stratton, Robert E. Edmonds and Arthur E. Palmer, attorneys for appellants, Brock and Linquist, and Harold E. Doherty, Ernest J. Rice and James E. Benfer, attorneys for appellant, Ragsdale, all of Topeka, were with him on the briefs for the appellants.

Jacob A. Dickinson, of Topeka, argued the cause, and Charles N. Henson, Chief Attorney for State Highway Commission, and Mark L. Bennett, Jr., both of Topeka, were with him on the briefs for the appellee.


The opinion of the court was delivered by

HATCHER, C.:

This is an appeal from a verdict and judgment denying damages for the alleged deprivation of the plaintiffs' common-law right to direct access to a pre-existing highway.

Plaintiffs own, as tenants in common, a tract of land bounded on the north by U.S. Highway 24 beginning at a point 150 feet east of Rochester Road (North Tyler Street), Topeka, Kansas...

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