GREENE v. ST. LOUIS COUNTY

No. 47060.

327 S.W.2d 291 (1959)

Nathan GREENE, Jr., and Elizabeth M. Greene, His Wife, et al., Plaintiffs-Respondents, v. ST. LOUIS COUNTY; John J. Leslie, Highway Engineer, St. Louis County, Missouri; L. Gordon Davis, Maurice Abramson, Thomas C. Dunne, Richard A. Hetlage, Frank L. Martini, James McNary and George E. Bohrer, Constituting the County Council of St. Louis County, Defendants-Appellants, Kelly Brothers Contracting Company, a Corporation; Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., a Corporation; Union Electric Co. of Missouri, a Corporation; Laclede Gas Co., a Corporation; St. Louis County Water Co., a Corporation, Defendants.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 1.

Motion for Rehearing or to Transfer Denied September 14, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carroll J. Donohue, Shulamith Simon, Husch, Eppenberger, Donohue, Elson & Jones, St. Louis, for plaintiffs-respondents.

William E. Gallagher, County Counselor of St. Louis County, Robert C. Finot, Assistant County Counselor, for appellants.


Motion for Rehearing or to Transfer to Court En Banc Denied September 14, 1959.

HOUSER, Commissioner.

St. Louis County formulated plans and commenced to widen and rebuild a segment of Florissant Road on the assumption that it had a 100-foot right of way. The owners of 21 tracts of land abutting on that segment of Florissant Road contended that the county had only a 60-foot right of way; that they owned and for years had used and occupied the 20-foot strip...

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