State Ex Rel. State Highway Commission v. Dockery

HOLLINGSWORTH, Presiding Judge.

The State Highway Commission of Missouri, hereinafter referred to as plaintiff, has appealed from a judgment awarding damages in the sum of $61,000 to Cardinal Paint Company, a corporation domiciled in the City of St. Louis, Missouri, hereinafter referred to as defendant, as the value of its factory site and factory taken in condemnation by plaintiff for State highway purposes. The basic question for determination is whether the trial court erred in permitting defendant’s witnesses to give in evidence their estimates of the damage sustained by defendant and in…