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STATE HWY. & TRANSP. COM'R OF VA. v. HERNDON

Record No. 801172.

302 S.E.2d 55 (1983)

STATE HIGHWAY AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSIONER OF VIRGINIA v. Virginia S. HERNDON, et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

April 29, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Beall, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen. (Marshall Coleman, Atty. Gen., Walter A. McFarlane, Deputy Atty. Gen., Herbert T. Williams, III, H. Taylor Williams, IV, Williams & Chappell, Richmond, on brief), for appellant.

J. Segar Gravatt, Blackstone, for appellees.

Before CARRICO, C.J., COCHRAN, POFF, COMPTON, STEPHENSON and RUSSELL, JJ., and HARRISON, Retired Justice.

RUSSELL, Justice.

In this eminent domain case, we must decide issues concerning the adequacy of an offer to purchase land, and the right of the State Highway and Transportation Commissioner to amend a certificate of deposit.

In August 1966, the State Highway Commissioner was engaged in land acquisition for the improvement of State Route 627 through Dinwiddie County. An agent of the Commissioner called on W. Potter Sterne that month to negotiate a voluntary...

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