Slattery v. City of St. Louis
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. Daniel Dillon, Judge. (1)The circuit court erred in excluding competent, relevant and material testimony offered by defendant. (2) The measure of damages in a case where access to a highway has been cut off is the difference in the market value of’the land before and after such cut off.
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. Daniel Dillon, Judge. (1)The circuit court erred in excluding competent, relevant and material testimony offered by defendant. (2) The measure of damages in a case where access to a highway has been cut off is the difference in the market value of’the land before and after such cut off. (3) The seventh instruction asked by defendant should also have been given for it authorized the jury in determining the question of depreciation to consider the rental value of the property. This was proper. Autenreith v. Railroad, 36 Mo. App. 254; Taylor v.…
1Opinion of the CourtBuegess, J.
This is an action for damages by plaintiff against the defendant for erecting, in front of her property, a permanent bridge, thereby impairing its usefulness and value. The petition alleges that plaintiff, in 1889, and continuously since then, was the owner of a lot of ground at the southeast corner of Twenty-first and Poplar streets, having a front of thirty feet on Twenty-first by depth of one hundred and fifty feet eastwardly along the south line of Poplar street, on which there was a substantial brick building; that the property fronted on Twenty-first and bordered on Poplar, which were…
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