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MISS. STATE HIGHWAY COM'N v. VIVERETTE

No. 57824.

529 So.2d 896 (1988)

MISSISSIPPI STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION v. E.S. VIVERETTE.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

July 20, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Huff, Forest, Edwin Lloyd Pittman and Mike Moore, Attys. Gen. by Kenneth S. Crawford, Sr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellant.

Jerry L. Bustin, Forest, for appellee.

Before PRATHER, ROBERTSON and ZUCCARO, JJ.

ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I.

This is an eminent domain case arising out of a highway relocation project in rural Scott County, Mississippi. The Highway Commission is taking a thirty foot strip across the frontage of landowner's property, some one-fourth of an acre in the aggregate. The jury awarded $10,000.00 in compensation to the landowner. This is simply too much, given the facts of this case. We reverse and remand for a new trial.

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