Thomson v. Kansas City

HYDE, Judge.

This is a proceeding for condemnation of easements through appellants’ land for construction and maintenance of sanitary sewer, in which a freeholders’ jury authorized by Sec. 142 of the Kansas City Charter awarded no damages. The jury found “that the benefits equal or exceed the damages” for the sewer right-of-way easements across defendants’ land. Judgment was entered in accordance with this verdict, which was affirmed by the Kansas City Court of Appeals, Thomson v. Kansas City, 379 S.W.2d 194. We transferred the case under the provisions of Sec. 10, Art. V, Constitution,…