City of Springfield v. Love

HOGAN, Presiding Judge.

This is a condemnation case, heard below upon the exceptions to the report of commissioners filed by Modern Tractor & Supply Company, Inc. (hereinafter Modern Tractor or the condemnee). The City of Springfield (hereinafter the city or the con-demnor) has exercised its power of eminent domain conferred by its charter to appropriate several parcels of land in the extreme southwest part of the city. The enabling ordinance found it necessary to appropriate this parcel and others for public street purposes in order to widen and improve Kansas Expressway, a north-south…