Court Opinion

ID: 9679135
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 06:41:55.373846+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:10.578681
License: Public Domain

OSBORNE, Judge
(concurring).
I concur with the results reached by the majority for the reason that I have long held that where loss of access diminishes the value of the property, it should be com-pensable. I am unable to understand the logic that permits one landowner to recover when there is a 99% loss of access and denies recovery to another where there is a 95% loss. To me, loss of access either is or is not compensable. I fail to see how this can be determined by measuring the quantity of the access loss. My opinion is more fully set out in a concurring opinion in Commonwealth of Kentucky, Department of Highways v. Hess, Ky., 420 S.W.2d 660, p. 663 (1967).