Board of Regents v. Palmer

The Sixty-Third General Assembly gave certain "State Educational Institutions" the power, through their governing bodies, to condemn property for a "project" provided in the act. Laws Mo. 1945, p. 1715. Pursuant to the act, the Board of Regents for the Northeast Missouri State Teachers College at Kirksville instituted this proceeding in condemnation, in Adair County, to acquire a tract of land to be used for dormitory buildings, one of the projects specified in the law. The purpose of the act is to permit specified educational institutions to take advantage of a Federal Act which seeks to…