City of Blue Springs v. Central Development Ass'n

SPINDEN, Judge.

Central Development Association (CDA) and Community Water Company (CWC) appeal a jury’s verdict of $100,000 against the City of Blue Springs for the city’s taking of property by condemnation. CDA and CWC contend that the trial court erred in excluding their evidence relating to separate values for the surface land and the water beneath it. We affirm the trial court’s judgment.

Blue Springs is a fourth class municipal corporation. Until 1990, it purchased water for its citizens from the Missouri Water Company. In 1979 Missouri Water announced that when the existing contract…