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COMMONWEALTH, DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS v. ROBERTS

496 S.W.2d 343 (1973)

COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, Appellant, v. Douglas P. ROBERTS and Vertrice Roberts, wife, et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

June 15, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl T. Miller, Gen. Counsel, Dept. of Highways, Frankfort, R. Clayton Smoot, Ashland, Phillip K. Wicker, Somerset, Lewis D. Jones, Flemingsburg, for appellant.

Stanley R. Hogg, Creech, Hogg & Johnson, Ashland, for appellees.

PALMORE, Chief Justice.

This is a "partial taking" condemnation case in which a strip of land fronting on an existing public highway was taken for purposes of reconstruction and widening. One of the effects of the project was an increase in the grade level of the highway above the remaining property of the landowners, some of which had been on the same level with the road before the taking but is now several feet below it. This circumstance was a substantial factor...

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