Boyce Industries, Inc. v. Missouri Highway & Transportation Commission

PRITCHARD, Presiding Judge.

This case was presented to the trial court and is presented to this court on a stipulation of facts: Plaintiff is the owner of an outdoor advertising structure, a sign, adjacent to Route 1-44, in Pulaski County, 3 miles east of its junction with Route 17, on the north side of the highway. The sign was erected prior to January 1, 1968, and measured 8 feet by 24 feet, or 192 square feet. [The sign was thus a pre-existing sign which did not conform with the billboard law, § 226.500, et seq., after March 30, 1972.] Defendant issued permits for the (nonconforming) sign…