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ARKANSAS STATE HIGHWAY COM'N v. HUMBLE OIL CO.

No. 5-5228.

453 S.W.2d 408 (1970)

ARKANSAS STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION, Appellant, v. HUMBLE OIL COMPANY, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

May 11, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas B. Keys and Billy Pease, Little Rock, for appellant.

Chowning, Mitchell, Hamilton & Burrow, Little Rock, for appellee.

GEORGE ROSE SMITH, Justice.

The highway department brought this action to condemn a 2.28-acre tract owned by Nealie McMillan Hardy and others. The landowners had leased a small part of the land—a rectangle 25 by 50 feet—to Humble Oil Company for ten years. Humble had constructed on its plot a tall advertising sign, consisting of two substantial steel columns supporting a cross-bar bearing the letters ESSO and arrows pointing toward a nearby Esso service...

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