City of Cape Girardeau v. Hunze

This is a suit brought by the city of Cape Girardeau under the provisions of Sections 8354 to 8371, inclusive, Revised Statutes 1919, to condemn an easement in a strip of land, approximately 2469 feet in length and 10.5 feet in width, across the north end of appellants' farm, for the purpose of constructing and maintaining thereon a twenty-one inch sewer main or pipe, manholes and appurtenances, and also to acquire, as an outlet for Sewer District No. 5 of said city, the right to the use of a certain natural watercourse, known as Cape La Croix Creek, which flows through the north part of…