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- Title: Abercrombie v. State Highway Commission
- Author : Supreme Court of Kansas
- Release Date : January 13, 1959
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 62 KB
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The opinion of the court was delivered by On appeal to the district court in an eminent domain proceeding
to condemn certain farmland in Johnson county for the
construction of interstate highway No. 50, the amount of the
verdict and judgment in favor of the landowners was less than the
amount awarded by the court-appointed appraisers. Within the same
term the trial court entered an order whereby the landowners were
granted permission to file a motion for new trial out of time,
the verdict and judgment were set aside and a new trial was
granted on the landowners' motion and the court's own motion. The
commission has here appealed from that order and the
[185 Kan. 48]
principal question raised is — did the trial court err in
granting the landowners a new trial on its own motion?