Kansas City v. Morris
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from. Jackson Circuit Court. — Hon. William 0. Thomas, Judge. (1) The court erred in giving instruction G-35. City of Kansas v. Hill, 80 Mb. 536; City of Kansas v. Baird, 98- Mo. 218; Hull v. City of St. Louis, 138 Mo. 618. (2) The award of the jury to this appellant is grossly inadequate, confiscatory and sweeps away a material part of his life’s earnings. Met. St. Ry.
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Appeal from. Jackson Circuit Court. — Hon. William 0. Thomas, Judge. (1) The court erred in giving instruction G-35. City of Kansas v. Hill, 80 Mb. 536; City of Kansas v. Baird, 98- Mo. 218; Hull v. City of St. Louis, 138 Mo. 618. (2) The award of the jury to this appellant is grossly inadequate, confiscatory and sweeps away a material part of his life’s earnings. Met. St. Ry. Co. v. Walsh, 197 Mo. 420; In re Fordham Road, 74 N. J. App. 343. (1) The court erred in refusing to give the instruction asked by this appellant to allow this appellant his proper measure of damages for his land taken,…
1Opinion of the CourtBond, C. J.
In this appeal from a judgment in street condemnation proceedings, all of the appellants and their friends seem to have favored us with separate briefs, similar in quantity to the pile of documents submitted to a famous jurist who decided the case without reading any of them. However, so learned was the defense made by the legal pundit of his “aleatory way of deciding law debates,” that the Rabelaisian satirist made a plea for his pardon, which it is not certain was allowed. [Rabelais, vol. 3, p. 277, Wallis Ed.] Warned by the meticulosity of present-day critics of the judiciary, as well as…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- City of St. Louis v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1916
- City of Kansas v. ButterfieldSupreme Court of Missouri · 1886
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- Proceedings for Condemnation of Private Property for Sixth Street Expressway v. National Engineering & Manufacturing Co.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1955
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