ELLETT, Justice:
In this case the State, in widening and improving its highway, took a 37-foot strip of defendants' land, thereby causing the traffic to be nearer to the defendants' home than had formerly been the case. Article I, Sec. 22, of the Utah Constitution provides that private property shall not be taken or damaged for public use without just compensation. The statute implementing this constitutional provision, Sec. 78-34-10, U.C.A. 1953, insofar as...
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