Court Opinion

ID: 7817653
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-07 17:41:41.385213+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:30:38.686046
License: Public Domain

J. Fred Jones, Justice, dissenting. In the acquisition of right-of-way for interstate highway purposes, I cannot, in good conscience, bring myself to approve a judgment in damages, to what I consider to be, a mere disturbance of some future cattleman’s dream of a utopian cattle spread. The money award in this case, was for damage to every acre in a large tract of old fields and timber land because the right-of-way crossed a comer of the tract most suitable and convenient for the elaborate headquarters of a hugh cattle ranching operation, if, and when, anyone owning the land, should have the desire, ambition, know-how and cash assets, to develop the land into such cattle ranch the appellees visualize as possible. I consider the damages entirely speculative, and I would reverse.