State ex rel. State Highway Commission v. Blue Ridge Baptist Temple, Inc.

PRITCHARD, Judge.

Respondent condemned a strip of land in or near Lee’s Summit, Missouri, through appellant’s about 84 acres of land for the construction of Interstate Highway 470. Appellant’s land generally fronts on old U. S.Highway 50 on its west with the exception of an area occupied by Dave L. Cross Motors. To its north is land owned by Unity Village, and to its south and southeast is about 340 acres of land owned and occupied by the Western Electric Company. Interstate 470 upon appellant’s property begins at its southwest corner, and runs in a northeasterly direction, dividing the tract…