Gary v. Averill

This appeal comes to us from the Circuit Court of Pemiscot County, where the plaintiffs, Theodore Gary, C. D. Mathews, Murray Carleton, and J. R. Davis, composing the State Highway Commission of Missouri, brought suit against several parties, defendants therein, asking that a strip of ground for road purposes be condemned, the same to constitute a part of State Highway No. 9. This highway extends from St. Louis to the Arkansas line. Three commissioners were appointed by the court, who qualified and in due time returned their report, assessing the damages for the various landowners. It seems…