Big Piney Aggregates, Inc. v. Missouri Highway & Transportation Commission

CLEMENS, Senior Judge.

The issue here is the circuit court’s role in reviewing an administrative hearing. Here, the court treated the case as one on appeal — rather than one for administrative review — and remanded the case to the *67Highway Commission for rehearing. This was reversible error.

Plaintiff Big Piney Aggregates, Inc., had applied to defendant Highway Commission for relocation damages. The Commission conducted an evidentiary hearing. It awarded plaintiff only $500 on its $90,000-plus claim. Plaintiff applied to the circuit court for review of the award. Sections 536.100 and 536.140,…