In 1904, a Missouri family acquired 15 acres; 106 years later St. Louis County condemned it for Highway 141, and a $238,000 offer became a $2.1 million judgment upheld on appeal
Missouri Supreme Court upheld the family’s $2.1 million award for land taken for Highway 141. In 1904, a Missouri family acquired 15 acres of land in what is now Chesterfield. More than a century later, St Louis County condemned the property for a highway project, turning the land into the centre of a long legal…