Cigas v. Kansas City Life Insurance Co.

PRITCHARD, Judge.

In a lengthy four count first amended petition, appellants sought to charge respondent with damage liability for depressing the values of their properties lying between 33rd Street on the north, Valentine Road on the south, Southwest Trafficway on the west, and Pennsylvania Avenue on the east, in Kansas City, Missouri, generally, and incorporated in each of appellants’ four counts, that respondent devised a scheme to acquire these properties at depressed prices so that the land could be assembled for the erection of lucrative apartment and business buildings; as a part of the…