Baum v. Glen Park Properties

SNYDER, Presiding Judge.

This is a court-tried case in which plaintiff-respondent Laura Baum sought an injunction restraining defendant-appellant Glen Park Properties from maintaining or erecting signs, installing curbs or planting trees on a roadway easement held by Baum. The Circuit Court of Jefferson County granted the injunction. The defendants appeal. The judgment is reversed and remanded.

Respondent Laura Baum was the owner of a 25.83 acre tract of land adjacent to Highway 30 in Jefferson County. A portion of that property was condemned in 1970 by the State of Missouri, through the State…