State ex rel. Missouri Highway & Transportation Commission v. Rantz

PARRISH, Presiding Judge.

The Missouri Highway and Transportation Commission (MHTC) filed an action in Stone County to condemn certain property for highway construction. The land sought by MHTC included tracts owned by respondents in No. 22821 (referred to in this opinion as “landowners”). Landowners are the appellants in No. 23366. Landowners moved to dismiss the action for lack of subject matter jurisdiction on the basis that MHTC had not joined necessary and indispensable parties to the action. Landowners further asserted that the trial *437court did not have jurisdiction to proceed for other…