Reorganized School District No. 2 v. Missouri Pacific Railroad

GUNN, Judge.

Action for inverse condemnation brought by plaintiff-respondent school district against defendant-appellant railroad for the taking of a portion of respondent’s school campus in Ironton, Missouri, and subsequent damage to the remainder of the campus. Verdict and judgment of $140,000.00 were for respondent and appellant appeals. We affirm the judgment.

In 1966, respondent school district operated a high school campus in Ironton for approximately 350 students. The campus was a two-block parcel bounded on the north by Dent Street, on the south by Reynolds Street and on the east by…