Case Name: W. E. FOLGER & Curtis Mathias, d/b/a Mathias & Foiger Oil Company, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, Appellees
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1961-09-22
Citations: 350 S.W.2d 703
Docket Number: 
Parties: W. E. FOLGER & Curtis Mathias, d/b/a Mathias & Foiger Oil Company, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, Appellees.
Judges: BIRD, C. J., dissenting.
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 350
Pages: 703–704

Head Matter:
W. E. FOLGER & Curtis Mathias, d/b/a Mathias & Foiger Oil Company, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, Appellees.
Court of Appeals of Kentucky.
Sept. 22, 1961.
Rehearing Denied Dee. 1, 1961.
Pat Rankin, Stanford, for appellant.
John B. Breckinridge, Atty. Gen., H. D. Reed, Asst. Atty. Gen., F. D. Curry, Asst. Atty. Gen., Leslie D. Aberson, Atty. Dept, of Highways, Frankfort, for appellee.

Opinion:
PALMORE, Judge.
In Foiger v. Commonwealth, Ky.1959, 330 S.W.2d 106, reversing a circuit court judgment to the contrary, we held that the appellants, Folg'er and Mathias, had such an interest pertaining to certain property acquired by the state that they were entitled to compensation for its destruction. The case was remanded for further proceedings. After receiving the evidence thereupon introduced, followed by a verdict awarding appellants $4,000, the trial court sustained the state's motion for judgment n. o. v. and again gave judgment against the appellants, this time on the ground that their rights remained untaken, unviolated and undestroyed. Hence this second appeal.
A .re-examination of our first opinion in this case has convinced us that we were wrong in holding the appellants entitled to recover. See Cumberland River Oil Company v. Commonwealth, Ky.1961, 350 S.W.2d 700, decided today. As to the law of the case, it falls within the qualification stated in Union Light, Heat & Power Co. v. Blackwell's Adm'r, Ky.1956, 291 S.W.2d 539.
Judgment affirmed.
BIRD, C. J., dissenting.