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STATE HIGHWAY COM'N v. CULPEPPER

No. 58116.

536 So.2d 18 (1988)

STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION OF MISSISSIPPI v. J.P. Culpepper, Owner; Veterans Farm and Home Board of the State of Mississippi; An Agency of the State of Mississippi, Beneficiary, Edwin B. Watkins, Trustee; Bank of Central Mississippi, Beneficiary; Vernon R. Cotten, Trustee.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 7, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A.R. Wright, Jr., Morris C. Phillips, Jr., Wright & Phillips, Carthage, for appellant.

Dexter C. Nettles, Jr., Smith & Smith, Carthage, for appellees.

Before HAWKINS, P.J., and SULLIVAN and ZUCCARO, JJ.

SULLIVAN, Justice, for the Court:

The State Highway Commission of Mississippi filed an Application for Special Court of Eminent Domain on September 24, 1985, in the Circuit Court of Leake County, Mississippi, seeking to condemn for public use .19 acres of a tract of land owned by J.P. Culpepper. The land in question was to be used for the widening of Highway # 16 in the City of Carthage.

The property was condemned pursuant to the "quick take" eminent domain...

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