State ex rel. State Highway Commission v. Berkeley School District

WEIER, Judge.

This is a condemnation case in which the commissioners awarded defendants the sum of $74,700 as damages and both parties filed exceptions. In a trial on plaintiff’s exceptions to the commissioners’ award, the jury awarded defendants the sum of $52,576. Defendants appeal. We reverse and remand.

Defendants owned a tract of land comprising some 83,501 square feet in the village of Bel Ridge in St. Louis County. It was an irregular-shaped tract of land located on the north side of Natural Bridge Road equally distant between Brown Road on the west and North Hanley Road to the east. The…