Defendants’ Exception No. 21 is directed to this portion of the chаrge: “No compensation shall be awarded to the defendants in this action for the denial of access rights to the new highway since no rights ever existed. Thus the denial of access to the new highway shall not enter into your consideration in determining what effect the аppropriation for a controlled access highway has upon *455 the fair market value of the remaining land immediately after the taking.”
Defendants’ Exception No. 22 is directed to “the failure of the court to instruct the jury to the effect that the denial of defendants to access to Interstate Highway 26 should be considered by thе jury in assessing general damages in accordance with the prоvisions of G.S. 136-89.52.”
Article 6D of G.S. Chapter 136 is entitled “Controlled-Access Facilities.” A section thereof, G.S. 136-89.52, provides in pertinent part: “Along new highwаy locations abutting property owners shall not be entitled, as a matter of right, to access to such new locations; however, the denial of such rights of access shall be considered in determining general damages.”
The applicable rule as to the mеasure of damages is now defined by statute as follows: “Where only a part of a tract is taken, the measure of damages for said taking shall be the difference between the fair market value of the entire tract immediately prior to said taking and the fair market value of the remainder immediately after said taking, with considerаtion being given to any special or general benefits resulting from the utilization of the part taken for highway purposes.” G.S. 136-112(1). G.S. 136-112 was enacted as a part of Section 2, Chapter 1025, of the Session Laws оf 1959. The rule as to measure of damages stated in G.S. 136-112 is in accord with thаt adopted and stated by this Court in numerous decisions prior to the adoption of the 1959 Act,
Robinson v. Highway Commission,
It is undisputed that defendants are denied access from the remaining portions of their property to Interstаte Highway 26. The question presented by assignments of error based on Exceptions Nos. 21 and 22 is whether such denial of access is to be considered in determining the fair market value of the remaining portions of defendants’ land immediately after the taking. The court instructed the jury that such denial of access should not be considered. G.S. 136-89.52, in the рortion thereof quoted above, expressly provides that “thе denial of such rights of access shall be considered in determining genеral damages.” (Our italics.)
G.S. 136-112(1) states the applicable rule as tо the ultimate measure of damages. It contains no provision аs to factors to be considered by the jury in determining fair market valuе. Under our decisions,
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factors pertinent to the fair market value of the remainder immediately after the taking are to be considered by the jury.
Gallimore v. Highway Comm.,
On account of said error in the charge, defendants are awarded a new trial. Discussion of defendants’ other assignments of error is unnecessary. They present questions that may not recur at the next trial.
New trial.