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MISSISSIPPI STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION v. HANCOCK

No. 47937.

309 So.2d 867 (1975)

MISSISSIPPI STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION v. R. HANCOCK and Mrs. Sarah L. Hancock.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

March 17, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Campbell & Campbell, Yazoo City, for appellant.

Henry, Barbour & DeCell, Yazoo City, for appellees.

Before GILLESPIE, INZER and BROOM, JJ.

INZER, Justice.

This is an appeal by the Mississippi State Highway Commission from a judgment of a Special Court of Eminent Domain convened in the County Court of Yazoo County awarding appellees $30,000 as damages for the taking of 18.35 acres of their property. The jury awarded damages in the amount of $33,573.67, but upon motion by the commission for a new trial, the court ordered a new trial unless a remittitur of $3,573.67 was entered by the landowners. The remittitur...

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