State Ex Rel. State Highway Commission v. Brown

This is a proceeding by the State Highway Commission, filed in the Circuit Court of Jackson County at Independence, for the condemnation and appropriation of a certain tract or tracts of land owned by the defendant Carlisle Investment Company, a corporation, for road purposes, which tract or tracts were encumbered by a deed of trust securing the payment of a note executed to the defendant Safety Savings and Loan Association by the defendant Carlisle Investment Company, in which deed of trust the defendant Landry Harwood was named trustee.

Upon the filing of the petition in condemnation, the…