Aronstein v. Missouri State Highway Commission

WELLIVER, Judge.

This case is a direct appeal from a summary judgment entered August 15, 1978, in the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit Court. Appellants seek to recover compensation for alleged damage to property located near the site of a proposed freeway. This court has jurisdiction because the case involves construction of Mo.Const. art. I, § 26. Hamer v. State Highway Commission, 304 S.W.2d 869, 870 (Mo.1957). The case arises out of the proposal to construct a north-south “Midtown Freeway” in Kansas City, Missouri. Plans for the freeway were made in the 1950’s and respondent State Highway…