Court Opinion

ID: 9667695
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 01:52:42.854419+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:39.944558
License: Public Domain

On Appellees’ Motions for Rehearing.
Landowners are of course entitled to recover consequential or severance damages for the injury done to their remaining land by reason of the taking of part of their land. Appendix “D” shows the shape in which lots 26 and 46 are left, by reason of the construction of the highway, if they are located where appellants’ evidence has placed them. In addition to appellants’ evidence, cited in our original opinion, which undertook to locate lots 26 and 46 as shown on Appendix “D”, and on Appendix “C”, the testimony of appel-lee Mrs. Brokaw professed to locate her lot 28 just above the City Pest House Block, as located on the ground. See Appendix “C”. Her testimony also located lot 26 where the evidence of appellants located same. This would also necessarily locate lot 46 where appellants’ evidence locates same.
In this case the evidence as to the doubtfulness of the ownership of the respective lots of land arises out of the doubtfulness as to the location of lots. The City had the right to bring its action against all the defendants because it ought not to have to pay double damages. However the right of the appellants to recover their full complement of damages, if lots 26 and 46 are located where their evidence positively places them, is fully as sacred as the right of the City not to pay double damages, if the locations of said lots are as uncertain as the City’s evidence makes same out to be.
We overrule appellees’ motions for rehearing.
HAMBLEN, C. J., not sitting.