City Water Company v. Hunter

— This is an appeal in a proceeding to condemn about 101 acres of respondents’ 206-acre farm for the location of a dam and water reservoir. The farm was located about fourteen miles south of Sedalia and a mile from a railroad shipping point. Rock roads extended from Sedalia out to and past this farm, and Spring Fork Creek ran through it. This creek with two springs and a well furnished the water supply. The farm lay in a compact body nearly square, with the improvements located near the center of the north eighty acres. The east part of the farm consisted of bottom land adjacent to the creek.…