Lowball Watch – Arkansas

We just came across the news item that an Arkansas jury rejected the State Highway Commission’s evidence in an eminent domain case of a taking of 19.26 acres out of the owners’ 72.89 tract of land for a new highway connecting Arkansas and Missouri. It took the jury only one hour to award the owners $4,670,000 million as against the Commission’s contention that the award should be $1,132,100.