Missouri Pacific Railroad Co. v. State

TUNKS, Chief. Justice.

This is a condemnation case. The con-demnee’s land, before the taking here in question, was an unimproved tract of about 550 acres in a roughly square shape. (This and other acreage figures have been rounded.) The only access to it was by a dedicated but unimproved city street called Mowery Road extending west from about the middle of the western boundary of the tract. The land taken by the State consisted of 40 acres and was for the purpose of constructing, as a limited access freeway, State Highway 288, commonly called the South Freeway. It is a strip about 500 feet…