State Ex Rel. State Highway Commission v. Demarco

HOGAN, Presiding Judge.

This is a statutory proceeding to apportion and distribute an award of damages for condemnation, as provided by Section 523.053, R.S.Mo. (Cum.Supp.1967). The plaintiff Highway Commission filed condemnation proceedings in Phelps County naming the owners of the fee, to whom we shall refer as the Reeds, one Arthur Hayes, and the appellants, to whom we shall refer as the Deans, as defendants. We do not know the size of the tract which the State sought to appropriate from the Reeds — the parcel involved on this appeal is only about 500 feet square — but the commissioners…