Holmes v. Kansas City

108 S.W. 9, 209 Mo. 513, 1908 Mo. LEXIS 32
CourtSupreme Court of Missouri
DecidedFebruary 26, 1908
StatusPublished
Cited by24 cases

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Bluebook
Holmes v. Kansas City, 108 S.W. 9, 209 Mo. 513, 1908 Mo. LEXIS 32 (Mo. 1908).

Opinion

CRAVES, J.

In 1886 the plaintiff and her husband, Daniel B. Holmes, acquired title to a tract or [516]*516parcel of land or lot in Kansas City, Missouri, the particular description of which will serve no good purpose here. The deed to them and which was of record, is such as created an estate by the entirety, and from that time on they continued as tenants by the entirety. On this tract or parcel of land was a brick dwelling house and other improvements. In February, 1901, the defendant, the city of Kansas City, being desirous of opening up> what is called Admiral Boulevard, and for that purpose, to acquire a portion of this and other tracts of land in said city, after passing in October, 1900, the necessary ordinance, instituted its condemnation proceeding in the circuit court of Jackson county, under the charter provision of said city relative thereto. The said city filed a certified copy of said ordinance, together with a plat of the property to be taken or damaged by the city in constructing this boulevard. This plat gave the names of the owners of the property, and as to this tract or parcel, which is known throughout this proceeding as tract 79, the names of Daniel. B‘. Holmes and the Jarvis-Conldin Mortgage Trust Company and Samuel M. Jarvis, Trustee, were named as owners. The name of Lyda M. Holmes did not appear upon this plat. In that proceeding the court record, omitting therefrom the ordinance mentioned therein, is as follows:

‘ ‘ In the matter of the condemnation of land for the opening and establishing a boulevard in the North Park District in Kansas City, Missouri, under ordinance of Kansas City, Missouri, No. 15,550, entitled, ‘An ordinance to open and establish a boulevard along Seventh street, Sixth street and Other Lands in the North Park District in Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri,’ approved on October 9th, A. D. 1900.
“Now, on this, the sixteenth day of February, A. D. 1901, in this, the circuit court of Jackson county, Missouri, at Kansas City, Division No. 2, comes Kan-. [517]*517sas City, Missouri, by its counsellor, R. B. Middlebrook, and by Delbert J. Half, attorney and counsellor of the Board of Park Commissioners, has caused to be filed in this court a certified copy of an ordinance of said city, No. 15,550, approved by the mayor of said city on the 9th day of October, A. D. 1900, and entitled, ‘An ordinance to Open and Establish a Boulevard along Seventh Street, Sixth Street and Other Lands in the' North Park District in Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri,’ and has caused also to be filed a statement by plat prepared by the city engineer of said city, as provided by law, containing a correct description of the several lots or parcels of private property to be taken or damaged, and containing also the names of the owners, so far as known, of such lots or parcels of land or any estate or interest therein, who were such at the time of taking effect of said ordinance, and the court being fully advised in the premises doth make the following order herein, to-wit:
‘ ‘ To all persons whom it may concern.
“Whereas, a certified copy of ordinance of Kansas City, Missouri, No. 15,550, and entitled, ‘An Ordinance to Open and Establish a Boulevard along Seventh Street, Sixth street and Other Lands in the North Park District in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri,’ has been by the Board of Park Commissioners of said city caused to be filed in the circuit court of Jackson county, Missouri, at Kansas City, the general object and nature of which ordinance is to open and establish a boulevard in the North Park District of Kansas City, Missouri, fully set out and described in said ordinance, and to take and damage certain private property for said purposes, describing the private property so to be taken or damaged, and prescribing the limits within which private property shall be deemed benefited by the proposed improvements and be assessed and charged to pay compensation therefor, [518]*518which' said ordinance is specifically as follows, to-wit:
“And said Board of Park Commissioners had caused to be filed also a statement by plat prepared by the city engineer of said city as provided by law, containing a correct description of the several lots or parcels of private property to' be taken or damaged, and containing also the names of the owners, so far as known, of such lots or parcels of land, or of any estate or interest therein, who were such at the time of taking effect of said ordinance:
“Now, therefore, all and each of you who may be concerned in said proceedings are hereby'notified that the twenty-third day of March, A. D. 1901, is the day, and the court room of Division No. 2 of the circuit court of Jackson county, Missouri, at Kansas City, at the county courthouse in Kansas City, Missouri, is the place hereby appointed and fixed for the empanneling of the jury to ascertain the compensation for the property to be taken or damaged under said ordinance, and the amount of benefits, if any, to be assessed against the property within the .benefit district, and to make assessments to pay for the property to be taken and damaged, and for the ascertainment of the compensation to be paid for the property to be taken or damaged, and the amount of the benefits to be assessed to pay therefor.
“And the court further orders that the parties owning or having an interest in the real estate proposed to be taken or damaged by said ordinance be served within said city with a copy of this order, either by delivering to each of said owners , or parties interested at any time before the said- day fixed herein for the hearing as aforesaid, a copy of this order, or by leaving such copy at the usual place of abode with some member of their respective families over the age of fifteen years, and in case of coxporations, by delivering [519]*519such copy to the president, secretary or some managing officer, or’to any agent of such corporations, in charge of any office or place of business of such corporations, as by the charter of said city provided.
“And the court further orders that this order be published in each issue of the Kansas City Mail, the newspaper doing the city printing for Kansas City, Missouri, for four successive weeks, the last insertion to be not more than one week prior to the day fixed for said hearing. ’ ’

The plat mentioned in said order and filed with the certified copy of the ordinance, as above stated, had thereon the following certificate:

“I hereby certify that this statement by map contains a correct description of the several lots or parcels of private property to be taken or damaged as provided by ordinance of the mayor and common council of Kansas City, Missouri, No. 15,550, approved October 9th, A. D. 1900, and contains also the names of the owners so far as known, of such lots or parcels of lands to be taken or damaged, or of any estate or interest therein, who were such at the date of the taking effect of said ordinance providing for the taking and damaging of said private property.
“Robert W. Waddell,
‘ ‘ City Engineer.
“Office of Board of Park Commissioners,
Kansas City, Missouri.

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