State ex rel. State Highway Commission v. Schwartz

McMILLIAN, Judge.

This is an appeal by defendant from a judgment entered on January 15, 1974 by the Circuit Court of St. Louis County following a jury verdict awarding defendant Hill-Behan Lumber Company (hereafter Hill-Behan) the sum of $17,000 for the taking of certain property by plaintiff State Highway Commission (hereafter Commission). We affirm.

Hill-Behan owns five retail stores, one of which is located on the subject property. That tract of land fronts on New Tesson Ferry Road and was formerly bounded on the rear by Old Tesson Ferry Road. The Commission condemned a section at the rear…