Missouri Public Service Company v. Hunt

DEW, Judge.

This is a proceeding to condemn a right-of-way for an electric transmission line over and upon a strip of the defendants’ vacant property abutting Highway 35 within the city of Clinton, Henry County, Missouri, and near the northern limits of that city. From a verdict and judgment for the defendants for their damages in the sum of $1,250, the defendants have appealed.

After the decree of the court sustaining the petition for the condemnation, the court appointed commissioners to report the amount of damages, if any, sustained by the defendants. The commissioners reported such damages…