Application to Vacate a Public Highway

Filed/ 8-48-32 STATE OF MISSOURI, } SS. County of Jackson, In the County Court, March Term, 1929 Be it Remembered, That at the term aforesaid, and on the 4th day of said month, among other proceedings, the following were had and made, viz.: In the Matter of the Application of LEE E. SECHREST, ET AL. to vacate a certain Public Highway known as Sechrest Road or 79th Street for a width of Fifty (50) Feet on each side of the Center Line of the Kansas City & Grandview Railway Company right-of-way ) Now on the 4th day of March, 1929, the application for the vacation of a portion of the public road in Brooking Township, Jackson County, Missouri, in the above-entitled cause, coming on for hearing, and the Court having heard the petitioners (there being no remonstrators), and having heard and considered the evi- dence for and against said vacation, and having been fully advised in the premises finds: That on January 14th 1929, a petition was filed in this Court signed by more than twelve (12) qualified resident free- holders of Brooking Township, Jackson County, Missouri, asking for the vacation of all of the public road known as Sechrest road or 79th street in Jackson County, Missouri, for a width of fifty (50) feet on each side of the center line of the Kansas City & Grandview Railway Company right of way, said center line being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point in the north line of Section 13, Township 48 north, Range 33 west, Jackson County, Missouri, 550 feet west from the northeast corner of said Section 13, thence southeasterly on a tangent to a point in the range line between said Section 13 and Section 18, Township 48 north, Range 32 west, 1258.4 feet north from the east and west center line of said Section 13, thence continuing said tangent a distance of 1249.2 feet, thence on a curve to the right, having a radius of 1432.69 feet, a distance of 1802.3 feet to a point in the aforesaid range line, said point being 1100.5 feet north from the southeast corner of said Section 13, and finds that due and legal public notice of said application was duly given by three typewritten handbills put up in three separate and different public places in said municipal township for more than twenty days before the first day of a regular term of this Court, as required by law; and that no remonstrance has been filed against the