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Article: STREET TALK Developer, landowner tangle over former mill
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- Columbia Daily Tribune
- Article date:
- July 28, 2007
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A company owned by local developer Jose Lindner hasn't paid up as
agreed under a land sale contract, and it ain't chicken feed, the
owners of W.B. Smith Hatchery Inc. and W.B. Smith Feed Mill Inc.
claim in a lawsuit filed earlier this month in Boone County Circuit
Court.
The lawsuit said Lindner agreed to split the cost of an
environmental evaluation and cleanup and demolition of hog farming
structures on land purchased through Providence Farms LLC about 18
months ago.
The Smiths said Lindner owes them $295,305.
According to the lawsuit, the Smiths spent more than $700,000 to
do the cleanup and demolition work, and Lindner has paid $58,109.77.
"It's a simple contract dispute regarding the ...