City of St. Louis v. Speck

The controversy in this case grows out of proceedings instituted before the land commissioner of the city of St. Louis, to open Autumn street, from Stoddard avenue to Morton street. There is no dispute, but that all the provisions of law, as well as the ordinances of the city, relating to the subject, had been pursued and complied with. The principal point in contest arises out of the action of the appraisers, who were duly appointed under the law, in charging defendant Blank with sixty-five dollars, that being the amount which, in their estimation, the property of said Blank, no part of…