State ex rel. State Highway Commission v. Nickerson

FINCH, Senior Judge.

This appeal, written on recent reassignment, involves a case wherein State Highway Commission of Missouri (respondent) filed condemnation proceedings to acquire land for right of way for a relocated U. S. Highway 54 in Miller County. One of the tracts, 4.13 acres located on the west side of old U. S. Highway 54 approximately two miles south of Eldon, belonged to I. J. Nick-erson and wife (appellants). Respondent sought to condemn 2.01 acres off of the back of west side of that tract. The portion to be taken did not include the land on which a restaurant, a filling station…