State Ex Rel. State Highway Commission v. King Bros. Motel, Inc.

DOERNER, Commissioner.

This appeal recently came to the writer by a reassignment. By this action the State Highway-Commission condemned right-of-way for the improvement of U.S. Highway 40TR, otherwise known as the Daniel Boone Expressway, from Lindbergh Boulevard east to Brentwood Boulevard in the County of St. Louis. Both the plaintiff and the Kellers, the landowners here involved, filed exceptions to the Commissioner’s report and the-cause was tried to a jury. From a verdict and judgment in favor of the defendants for $16,000 the plaintiff appealed. Since the plaintiff admitted a minimum…