State ex rel. State Highway Commission v. Gatson

STEWART, Judge.

In this condemnation proceeding defendant John M. Gatson appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict awarding defendant $5,000 upon trial of his exceptions to the Commission’s award of $6,575 for taking a portion of his land.

We affirm.

Defendant is the owner of 24.71 acres of land in Ralls County about one mile north of the site of the Clarence Cannon Dam. Defendant’s property is the first private property north of the dam. Immediately prior to the taking defendant’s property was bisected by a north-south gravel county road. The southern border of defendant’s land is…