City of St. Louis v. Meier
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Court of Appeals. 1. The duty of the commissioners, under the charter (art. 6, § 2), was to ascertain the actual value of the land taken, the damages done to the property, and for the payment of such values and damages to assess against the city the general benefits, and the balance against the owners of all property which should be specially benefited by the proposed improvement.
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Appeal from St. Louis Court of Appeals. 1. The duty of the commissioners, under the charter (art. 6, § 2), was to ascertain the actual value of the land taken, the damages done to the property, and for the payment of such values and damages to assess against the city the general benefits, and the balance against the owners of all property which should be specially benefited by the proposed improvement. Neither the ordinance nor the proceedings under it, in any way seek to appropriate the Kingsland tract, nor are the owners of that tract noticed or are in any way made parties to these…
1Opinion of the CourtHough, C. J.
This is a proceeding instituted in the circuit court of St. Louis on the 14th day of February, 1878, to open Ninth street in said city. At the time of the institution of this proceeding, Ninth street was already open north and south of the land proposed to be taken. The intervening space interrupting the continuity of said street and involved in this suit, was 595 feet in length north and south, and sixty feet wide, that being the width of Ninth street, and was owned by the following named persons, in the order stated: 275 feet by Adolphus Meier¿ eighty feet by the Kingsland heirs, eighty…
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