State ex rel. State Highway Commission v. Mann

This is an action in eminent domain brought by the appellant, State Highway Commission of Missouri, to acquire a right of way for proposed improvement of Missouri State Highway 210 in Jackson County, Missouri. Judgment in Jackson County Circuit Court was for defendant-respondents Mr. and Mrs. William Mann, owners of the proposed right of way, in the amount of $338,550. The State Highway Commission appealed. The Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, ordered the case transferred here so that this Court might re-examine the existing law on the use of the capitalization of income method of…