State Ex Rel. State Highway Commission V‪.‬

Condemnation proceeding for right-of-way for Interstate Highway 44 improvement in Pulaski County. Commissioners awarded P. R. Lynch, Leoti A. Lynch and Alfred N. Lynch $298,140 damages for 3.02 acres and improvements taken from them. Both parties excepted to the commissioners' award. On a jury trial, the Lynches' damages were assessed at $205,000. Trial court, on March 18, 1969, entered judgment against Lynches for $93,140 excess of the commissioners' award over the amount of the verdict, with interest at the rate of 6% per year from the date of payment of the award, December 28, 1960. Lynches appealed. Lynches were owners of a 10.64-acre tract, fronting 962.2 feet on the north side of City Route 66 in the city of St. Robert. The tract was located at the eastern junction of City Route 66 and Route 66. Lynch had subdivided the tract into lots and installed gas, water and sewer systems in the property. He operated a furniture store which occupied two buildings near the southeast corner of the tract. Adjacent to those buildings was a building which housed a L-P gas operation run by Lynch's sons. Lynch also operated a mobile home court on the property, with forty-eight hookups available for mobile homes.