Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority of Joplin v. Joplin Union Depot Co.

STONE, Judge.

In this proceeding Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority of the City of Joplin, Missouri (hereinafter referred to as the Authority), a public corporation organized under the Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority Law [V.A.M.S. §§ 99.300 to 99.660], has exercised its power of eminent domain [V.A.M.S. §§ 99.420(4) and 99.460], in connection with the Progress Urban Renewal Project in Joplin, to condemn Lots 151 and 152 and one-half of the vacated alley at the rear of those lots in Porter’s Addition (referred to upon trial as, and hereinafter called, the subject lots), which…