State Ex Rel. State Highway Commission v. McMurtrey

VAN OSDOL, Commissioner.

This is a condemnation case. Commissioners awarded defendants-appellants, Dan McMurtrey and Alpha McMurtrey, husband and wife, $300 compensation for the taking of an easement for highway purposes over and across their 280-acre farm situate west of Lanton in Howell County. Defendants filed exceptions to the Commissioners’ report, and upon trial in the circuit court before a jury defendants were awarded the sum of $275. Defendants appealed from the ensuing judgment to the Springfield Court of Appeals, wherein, by majority opinion upon review, the judgment of the circuit…