State ex rel. State Highway Commission v. DeLisle

HOUSER, Commissioner.

This is a landowners’ appeal from a judgment entered upon a jury verdict in a state highway condemnation action. Commissioners awarded landowners $146,603.-50. Trial of exceptions before a jury resulted in a verdict of $75,000 damages for *642landowners. Landowners’ expert witnesses testified to damages ranging from $143,385 to $150,000. Experts called by the commission variously fixed the damages at from $53,900 to $67,927. This Court has jurisdiction on appeal as. the amount in dispute exceeds $15,000. State ex rel. State Highway Commission v. Langley, Mo.Sup., 422 S.W.2d…