State Ex Rel. State Highway Commission v. Grissom

STONE, Judge.

In this condemnation proceeding, the Missouri State Highway Commission filed exceptions to the commissioners’ award of $2,500; and, upon trial in the circuit court, a jury verdict of $1,200 was returned in favor of the landowners, defendants Homer Grissom and Freda Grissom, his wife. From the judgment entered thereon, defendants appeal.

Defendants owned and resided on a 680-acre farm in the southern part of Ripley County, Missouri. Supplementary State Route DD ran through defendants’ farm in a general northerly-southerly direction, and Dry Creek flowed through the farm along a…