State Ex Rel. State Highway Commission v. Baker

STONE, Judge.

This is a condemnation proceeding by the Missouri State Highway Commission (the Commission) to take additional land needed to convert the two-lane roadway of U.S. Highways 60 and 67 north of Poplar Bluff in Butler County, Missouri, into a divided four-lane roadway with an outer road on the east side thereof. The tract of exceptors G. W. Finney and Norma Fin-ney, husband and wife (defendants-respondents here), was on the east side of the highway about .8 mile north of the corporate limits of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, as they were established on November 4, 1968, the date of taking.…