City of St. Louis v. Franklin

This proceeding was begun to condemn a right of way one hundred feet wide for an underground water pipe through a tract of land in St. Louis County belonging to the defendants. The tract was rectangular in shape, containing eleven and one-half acres. It was approached from the front by a private road which led from the Olive Street Road. The right of way condemned was a hundred-foot strip running diagonally across the rear, cutting off a little corner of the land. The amount of land taken was .6372 of an acre, and the corner cut off was .1391; the total affected, including the corner cut off,…