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- Title: Steck v. City of Wichita
- Author : Supreme Court of Kansas
- Release Date : January 07, 1956
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 59 KB
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The opinion of the court was delivered by This was an appeal from a verdict and judgment in the trial
court where both appellant and appellee had appealed and
cross-appealed from an award of appraisers in a condemnation
proceeding under the power of eminent domain. The appeals were
consolidated for jury trial and remained consolidated on appeal
to this court. The record disclosed that appellee owned 80.97 acres of land
north and a little west of the city of Wichita; the acreage was
rectangular in shape, raw and unimproved; the Little Arkansas
River made a hairpin bend in the east side of the rectangle and
there was a wooded section on each bank; underbrush of various
densities was present in the wooded sections; appellee's
improvements were slightly west of the northeast corner of the
parcel of land and the only use to which the land had been put
was that of farming; as early as 1944 there had been a government
survey in connection with the Wichita-Valley Center Flood Control
Project, but the
[179 Kan. 307]