Union Electric Light & Power Co. v. Snyder Estate Co.

GARDNER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment assessing damages in a condemnation proceeding in which appellant, plaintiff below, sought to acquire an easement to store water and to flood lands. For convenience, the parties will be referred to as they were designated in the lower court.

The property involved is known in the record as Hahatonka, and is located in the Ozark Mountains on the Big Niangua river, about fifteen miles above the point of confluence of the Niangua and the Osage rivers, and about forty-nine miles up the river from the Bagnell Dam. The building of this Bag-nell…