State ex rel. State Highway Commission v. Flick

STOCKARD, Commissioner.

In this action for condemnation of land for highway purposes the jury award of just compensation to the owners, appellants, was $25,000. The difference between the jury award and that to which appellants claim they were entitled under their evidence exceeds $15,000.

The land taken by condemnation consisted of substantially all of a tract of land being used for a gasoline service station located on the eastern side of U.S. Highway 54 in the southern area of Jefferson City, Missouri. At the time of the taking the property was subject to a lease from appellants to the Gulf…