Columbus Business First of May 16, 2013, reports that a Franklin County jury disagreed with the city’s valuation of eminent domain land acquisition for a beautification project in Westerville. The city had offered the owner $145,000, but the verdict was $1,320,000. See Brian R. Ball, Westerville Whacked With $1.3 M Verdict in Eminent-Domain Case – click here.
The article gives no indication of the specific factual or legal bone of contention that separated the parties’ opinions of value, but the verdict came to over nine times the city’s offer.