Section 25 Tenant-Owned Structures

• Library: Condemnation Practice 2009

A lessee whose billboard sign structures were condemned by the State Highway Commission along with leased land was entitled to a percentage of the market value of the billboard structures, which must be ascertained as of the date the land was taken and constituted in the total condemnation award to the lessor. State ex rel. State Highway Comm’n v. Volk, 611 S.W.2d 255 (Mo. App. E.D. 1980). In Volk, the tenant had the right to remove the structures. Yet, during the process of the condemning authority...