Shepherd v. State Ex Rel. State Highway Commission

FRANK W. HAYES, Special Judge.

Since both plaintiff and defendant have appealed from the judgment of the trial court herein, the parties will be referred to as plaintiff and defendant.

In 1953 and prior thereto, plaintiff Edna D. Shepherd and her husband, Ernest Shepherd (now deceased) owned in Clay County, Missouri, some real estate abutting Route U.S. 69 on the east. On February 20, 1953, plaintiff and her husband duly executed and delivered, for a consideration of four thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars, their deed to a strip of land lying along and adjoining Highway 69 on the east…