Condemnation - Eminant Domain - The State of Oklahoma's Department of Transportation needed plaintiff's real property to increase the width of the highway in Mayes County. Plaintiff was not satisfied with the Court appointed appraisal of the property and asked for a jury trial on the issue.

Inverse Condemnation - On November 21, 1989, Palm Beach County (County) purchased a residential mobile home lot from one Mary B. Herman. This lot was part of a mobile home community known as Sandalfoot Cove. The County acquired the lot through its powers of eminent domain for a road improvement project on Marina Boulevard in Palm Beach County. However, title to the property was subject to a

Condemnation, Consequential Damages - BIK's land was condemned by Troup County as necessary for a road construction project. Troup County acquired two easements (a permanent slope easement and a temporary construction easement) and 726.98 sq ft of BIK's property. BIK claimed there would be consequential damages to the remaing commercial property due to changes in traffic pattern and volume from

Condemnation - City of Kennesaw brought condemnation action for land owned by Kenneth Clark. Clark disputed the City's appraisal of the value of the land based on an accounted for increase in the value of the property due to the location of the property in the "epicenter" of an historic preservation zone and his plans to preserve and restore the property.

Condemnation - Eminent Domain - The Oklahoma Department of Transportation brought this condemnation action seeking to obtain ownership of a parcel of property located on the south side of Highway 20. The State offered defendants $10,000 for all rights, title and interests sought to be acquired. The Commissioners appointed by the court awarded defendants $14,000. A demand for jury trial was made

Helen and Joseph Sluciak , Dennis Sluciak’s parents, purchased a sixty acre parcel of land in the Township of Cecil, Washington County, Pennsylvania, in April 1938. In August 1938, Mary Dagsher and her husband purchased the adjoining property. Mr. and Mrs. Sluciak , who used the property as a farm, had frontage on Grudevich Road but used a driveway that cut across a "sliver" of property

Condemnation, Eminent Domain - The South Carolina Department of Transportation condemned 6.9 acres of Richardson's 26.20 acre tract located on Hilton Head Island. The property was in the path of the Cross-Island Expressway. Richardson's expert witness testified the appropriate amount for Richardson's just compensation was approximately $415,000 which included the value of the 6.9 acres taken and

Condemnation - Eminent Domain - Plaintiff offered to buy defendant's property for an appraised amount. The offer was accepted by the defendant. Ten days prior to trial, plaintiff's reduced the dollar amount offered for the property.

Condemnation Action - Eminent Domain - Defendant sought two parcels of property owned by the plaintiff through a condemnation action. Prior to trial, the plaintiffs filed a motion to define fair market value as the "highest price" the property would bring on the open market.

Eminent Domain Condemnation - The West Virginia Department of Transportation Division of Highways acquired the right to take 3.665 acres of Jack Butler's 20 acre undeveloped tract through eminent domain proceeding in order to widen an adjacent state highway. The parties disputed the value of the 3.665 acres to be taken. Butler presented expert testimony valuing the property as $70,000.00 per acr

Roy English and Gayle English, d/b/a Dakota Industries (collectively, English), sued Tarrant County, Texas (the County) for damages to English's real property. English owned a tract of land adjacent to the County's property. He alleged that spilled diesel fuel migrated from the County's property onto his property and contaminated it, causing him damages. English sought to recover from

Inverse Condemnation - Levee - Floods - Negligent Maintenance - In the Sacramento Valley, flooding is frequent and severe. (See S. Field, Personal Reminiscences (1893) p. 13 [1850 flood described by Supreme Court justice].) We recount in Beckley v. Reclamation Board (1962) 205 Cal.App.2d 734 (at pages 739-741) how hydraulic gold minin

Eminent Domain - Condemnation - The property around which this appeal centers is the South San Francisco Conference Center, located in the City of South San Francisco. Before its development in the late 1980s as a conference center, the property was used as a warehouse facility. In 1989, the City leased the property from its owne

TIFC filed Petition for Condemnation of Real Estate covering two lots owned by Romine in downtown Kansas city, covering approximately 12,000 square feet. TIF had paid $137,500, the amount awarded by the condemnation commissioners, to acquire the property. Both Romine and TIF filed exceptions to the award.

NCE operates a metal-recycling center located in what, until recently, was National City, Illinois. NCE has been at its present location since 1975 and employs 80 to 100 people full time, shredding cars and appliances and separating reusable metals, depositing nonrecyclable by-products into landfills which NCE also owns adjacent to the operation. Gateway International Raceway, adjacent to NCE, s

Condemnation - Eminent Domain. Multiple condemnation cases taking residentially zoned parcels in Arrowhead Ranch needed for construction of an expressway. Defendant claimed that the construction of the expressway adversely impacted the master planned residential property which consisted of two Arnold Palmer designed golf courses, a system of lakes, and many other amenities. Defendants experts c

Inverse condemnation - Mr. and Mrs. Graves bought a house in 1981 on a street called Ruble. The street was located on property owned by the City of Sapulpa. The roadway had been there at least since 1952.

In 1982, the City of Sapulpa sold the property, but made no reservation for the roadway called South Ruble. Sometime in 1988 or 1989 the land was purchased by a developer. He submitted a

Inverse condemnation action by owners of businesses who claimed that the construction of a new monorail station resulted in a temporary taking of their property. They claimed that Defendant, in the course of constructing the Georgia Avenue/Petworth Metrorail Station, has taken their property without just compensation in violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constit

Condemnation - Case involves the taking of 18.831 acres of non-flood land and .229 acres of flood zone. The commission award = $264,000.00

Condemnation - Eminent Domain - Total taking of 11.7 acres of land and buildings for a new highway. Commissioners awarded $325,000.00. The State's expert testified to $465,000 in damage and defendants' experts testified to $725,00 and $740,000.

Eminent Domain - E.S.I. Investments was seeking compensation in excess of $1.8 million dollars for damages to its shopping center resulting from the condemnation. The condemnation involves a portion of three separate tracts of land owned by E.S.I.. One of the tracts was improved with the Heritage Square Shopping Center, occupied by various tenants named as parties in this action. This tract of l

Eminent Domain - Wallace Enterprises owns and operates a gasoline convenience store and car wash at the intersection of Maddox Street (State Highway 120) and Old Norcross Road in Alpharetta, Fulton County, Georgia. The property consists of .921 acre of improved land containing a gasoline convenience store, car wash and parking area. On September 19, 1995, the Department of Transportation brought

Condemnation - Beginning in 1988, IDOT acquired several lots of property in northwestern Cook County at the intersection of Route 59 and Route 20. IDOT condemned three parcels of property at that location for the purpose of improving the flow of traffic on an entrance/exit ramp. For purposes of this appeal, these parcels will be designated as the "East Parcel," the "Starview Parcel," and "Wes

In 1992, a group of homeowners (lessees), Ferguson among them, initiated procedures pursuant to HRS chapter 516 to condemn the leased fee interest in their houselots, owned by Castle, in the Pikoiloa subdivision in Kailua, Hawai`i. On October 12, 1994, HFDC brought the condemnation action in court.

"Blight of summons damages" compensates a landowner in a condemnation actio

Condemnation - easement for an underground water line over its property sought by Cobb County-Marietta Water Authority. The condemnee has the burden of proving the damages sustained as a result of the taking.