City of St. Louis v. Gerhart Realty Co.

This is a proceeding brought by the city of St. Louis under the provisions of Ordinance No. 32785, passed in February, 1924, which authorized the condemnation of private property necessary to extend a street known as Kingsbury Place east about 110 feet to DeBaliviere Avenue. The Gerhart Realty Company, a corporation, respondent here, owned an unimproved tract of land fronting 200 feet on the west side of DeBaliviere Avenue, about 100 feet deep. The extension of Kingsbury Place took a strip 50 feet wide through this lot, leaving a lot of about 121 feet on the north side of the extension and a…