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STATE HIGHWAY COMM. v. NIXON

No. 43317.

253 Miss. 636 (1965)

170 So.2d 631

MISSISSIPPI STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION v. NIXON, et al.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

September 27, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J.M. Travis, Heidelberg, for appellant.

A.S. Scott, Jr., Laurel; W.L. Richmond, Hattiesburg, for appellees.

LEE, C.J.

Bamer Nixon, widow of James Nixon, Jr., supposedly owned four acres of land, in a rectangular shape, on which she lived, in Jasper County, Mississippi. This property lay in the path of the right-of-way for Interstate Highway No. 59.

The Mississippi State Highway Commission instituted eminent domain proceedings in a justice of the peace court of the county, naming Bamer Nixon and seven others, including...

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