Harris v. Board of County Commissioners

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, C. J.:

This is an appeal and cross-appeal from a judgment awarding damages for-taking plaintiffs’ twenty-acre country home for publicrpark purposes.

In 1934 the board of county commissioners of Wyandotte county set about the creation of a public lake and recreational park. Civil engineers made a tentative plat of the needed lands at a suitable site in the northern part of the county a few miles west of Kansas City.

Plaintiffs’ property was within the area of the tentative plat of the proposed park, and during 1935 a considerable acreage of the…