City of Manhattan v. Kent

The opinion of the court was delivered by

McFarland, J.:

The City of Manhattan instituted proceedings in eminent domain for a total taking of a 71.43-acre tract of land for airport expansion purposes. Thomas Sign Service leases, for sign purposes, a 50-foot by 2,300-foot strip of the tract adjacent to the Kansas Highway 18 right-of-way. The appraisers’ report found the total value of the tract to be $258,650 and, in an *514advisory report, stated that $21,000 of said value was attributed to the signs. The City and the landowners, Rex J. and Emma J. Kent, appealed to the district court.

A dispute…