State ex rel. State Highway Commission v. Gann

BARRETT, Commissioner.

In this proceeding in condemnation a jury awarded the respondent landowners, the Hyatts, $48,000 damages and the state has appealed. The proceeding has to do with the relocation and construction of 11.658 miles of U. S. Highway 50 through Johnson County just west of Warrensburg and particularly with the “second stage construction of two high-type pavements, each 24 feet wide, separated by a median” with limited access.

For the most part the necessary background facts are excerpted from the state’s brief. The Hyatts owned a 240-acre farm, “L” shaped, “with one-half mile…