LAYNE v. SPEIGHT


529 S.W.2d 209 (1975)

John Parker LAYNE et al., Petitioners, v. C.W. SPEIGHT, Commissioner of Highways of the State of Tennessee, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

October 14, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William M. Ables, Jr., South Pittsburg, for petitioners.

R.A. Ashley, Jr., Atty. Gen., Russell G. Lazenby, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, Francis Barker, South Pittsburg, for respondent.


OPINION

FONES, Chief Justice.

The issues in this condemnation case spring from the land owner's witnesses' use of comparable sales to oil companies, admittedly enhanced by location on the I-24 interchange at Kimball. The Layne property was taken for the widening of U.S. Highway 72 from First Street in South Pittsburg to the I-24 interchange, a project later in time to the construction of I-24 and the portion of...

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