City of St. Louis v. Essex Investment Co.

ELLISON, J.,

This is an appeal under Sec. 126 of the Civil Code, Laws Mo. 1943, p. 390, See. 847.126 Mo. R. S. A., from a special order after final judgment entered by the circuit court of the City of St. Louis on February 17, 1947, overruling a motion for a nunc pro tune order theretofore recently filed by certain defendants in the above entitled condemnation suit, which was instituted by the city in 1920 for the widening of Olive Street and the appropriation of a strip of land on the south side thereof for that purpose. Some 165 abutting property owners were made defendants in the original…