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State DNR hires attorney to battle Nixon:

Jefferson City — The Department of Natural Resources has hired a private attorney to do battle with Attorney General Jay Nixon in a dispute over whether the agency can legally relinquish the state's rights to an old Boonville railroad bridge.

The department said Friday that it will be represented by Kent Lowry, leader of the tort litigation group at the Armstrong Teasdale law firm.

Lowry will be paid $275 an hour, which the department intends to bill to Nixon's legal expense fund, said department director Doyle Childers.

So the state government is suing the state government for the betterment of....well, attorneys and some people who will use the trail, and more people who won't use the trail but are glad it's there in case they ever wanted to use the trail.