DEPARTMENT OF TRANSP. v. ROWE

No. COA97-1470.

531 S.E.2d 836 (2000)

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, Plaintiff, v. Joe C. ROWE and wife, Sharon B. Rowe; Howard L. Pruitt, Jr., and wife, Georgia Pruitt; Robert W. Adams, Trustee; Aline D. Bowman; Frances Bowman Bollinger; Lois Bowman Moose; Dorothy Bowman Abernethy and husband, Kenneth H. Abernethy; Martha Bowman Caudill and husband, Jack Caudill; Appalachian Outdoor Advertising Co., Inc. (formerly Appalachian Poster Advertising Company, Inc.), Lessee; and Florence Bowman Bolick, Defendants.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

June 20, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Attorney General Michael F. Easley, by Assistant Attorney General J. Bruce McKinney, for plaintiff-appellee.

Lewis & Daggett, P.A., by Michael J. Lewis; and Bell, Davis & Pitt, PA, by Stephen M. Russell, Winston-Salem, for defendants-appellants.


WYNN, Judge.

On 26 June 1995, the North Carolina Department of Transportation brought a declaration of taking action in Superior Court, Catawba County condemning 11.411 acres of the 18.123 acres of land belonging to Joe C. Rowe and his wife, Sharon B. Rowe, and Howard L. Pruitt, Jr., and his wife, Georgia M. Pruitt. However, because the Department of Transportation concluded that the benefits to the defendants' remaining 6.712 acres of property outweighed any loss...

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