STATE v. KEEN

No. 47505.

332 S.W.2d 935 (1960)

STATE ex rel. KANSAS CITY POWER & LIGHT COMPANY, Respondent, v. Wendell KEEN and Roberta Keen, Husband and Wife, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2.

March 14, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur R. Kincaid, Hale, Coleberd, Kincaid & Waters, Liberty (Johnson & Rawlings, Marshall, of counsel), for appellants.

Ike Skelton, Skelton & Bradley, Lexington, Keith P. Bondurant, Spencer, Fane, Britt & Browne, Kansas City (Bellamy & Bellamy, Marshall, of counsel), for respondent.


BARRETT, Commissioner.

In the establishment and construction of its electric transmission lines from Montrose Station in Henry County to a substation in Jackson County the Kansas City Power & Light Company condemned an easement 150 feet wide and 2,878 feet long (approximately ten acres) diagonally across the 353 acre farm of Wendell and Roberta Keen in Cass County. To carry its 161,000 volt transmission lines across the Keen's stock farm the company has built...

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