State Ex Rel. State Highway Commission v. Graeler

KELLY, Judge.

Paul Londe and Shirley Londe, hereinafter defendants, bring this appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of St. Louis County awarding them $35,000.00 damages for the condemnation of a 3.85 acre portion of their 39.4 acre tract of land in St. Louis County abutting Highway 40 for highway purposes.

The issues presented here are directed at what the defendants contend are errors of the trial court committed during a jury trial in ruling that for the purpose of determining damages the date of the taking of defendants’ 3.85 acres of land occurred on April 23, 1968, and in admitting…