State ex rel. Missouri Highway & Transportation Commission v. Our Savior Lutheran Church

HOFF, Judge.

Barbara and David Barton (Bartons), owners of property, appeal from a judgment entered on a jury verdict which awarded them $350,000 damages for land taken by the Missouri Highway and Transportation Commission (Commission). We affirm.

By a petition filed on July 2, 1992, the Commission sought to obtain by condemnation approximately 50,857 square feet of the Bartons’ twenty acre tract of land. Condemnation Commissioners were duly appointed, prepared a report and made an award of $450,000. Both parties filed exceptions to the Commissioners’ report and the question was tried by jury.

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