State Ex Rel. State Highway Com'n of Mo. v. Kimmell

EAGER, Judge.

This suit is one in condemnation for land taken by the plaintiff for the improvement of U.S. Highway 71. The land of the defendants Grounds was a tract of 24.7 acres just south of the south city limits of Harrisonville on the west side of Highway 71. The tract was generally rectangular, the longer dimensions running east and west, except that a smaller (5 acre) rectangle had been cut out of the northwest corner. Before the taking, the northeast corner of this land “cornered” on Highway 71, and its easterly side or end fronted on County Road No. 2 for a distance of 592.6 feet.…