We are informed that the Georgia City of Sandy Spring has settled a condemnation action it brought, for twice the original offer. The case is City of Sandy Springs v. 2.97 Acres, Superior Court, Case No. 2015CV255755, Fulton County. The city first offered $3.5 million, but eventually settled for $7 million.
When San Francisco decided to acquire the owners’ land, negotiations ensued and at the end it offered $3,800,000. The owners asked for $10,875,000. Unable to agree, the parties went to trial, where the city formally offered $5,000,000, subject to a contingency: the settlement would have to be approved by three other government entities. After trial, […]
News reaches us that a property owner in Wichita Falls, Texas, won a $445,365 judgment against a power company, as opposed to an initial offer of $55,000, later raised to nearly $140,000. The award was a $393,165 jury verdict, plus interest and costs, which came to a total of about $445,000. The case is Oncor Electric […]
The Los Angeles Daily Journal Verdicts and Settlements supplement, August 22, 2014 reports the settlement of People v. Sani, San Luis Obispo Superior Court No. CV128114. See http://www.murphyevertz.com/files/news/People%20v.%20Sani.pdf CalTrans originally offered $1,073,200 for the partial takings of the owners’ two parcels, and later upped its offer to $4,00,200. Using a cross-complaint, the owners also asked for damages […]
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that a taking of 15 acres out of a 56-acre parcel owned by MGM Resorts International settled for a total of $5.2 million on the condemnor’s (Nevada DOT) original deposit of $$2.041 million. Evidently, the issue that divided the parties was compensation for impairment of access in the after condition. […]
We are reliably informed that in the case of Matter of West Ramapo Sewer Extension Project, 2014 N.Y. Slip Opinions 05889, August 12, 2014, on a condemnor deposit of $244,800, the trial court awarded a total of $8,100,000, which came to over thirty-three times the condemnor’s deposit. The Appellate Division affirmed, and awarded costs t […]
The Columbus Dispatch of August 20, 2014, brings the news that the Ohio Court of Appeals has awarded $1.3 million for the taking of a 0.205 slice of land. The City of Westerville offered $145,855, but that did not factor in the city’s taking of the power to deny access, and impair visibility of the remainder […]
WAVY.com (which we presume is a radio or TV broadcast station) reports the Virginia Department of Transportation settled a condemnation lawsuit in Portsmouth for over seven times its original offer. VaDOT took a part of the owner’s land for a new bridge, and offered $125,607 for the required strip of land, but the offer did not […]
A dispatch from the North informs us that the town of Devils Lake acquired a parcel of land by settling an eminent domain case for $1.7 million. It originally deposited only $700,000 for the owner but the final settlement was almost two-and-a-half times that amount. http://www.inforum.com/content/devils-lake-pay-17-million-eminent-domain-case-0 Unfortunately this dispatch gives no details as to the […]
Word reaches us that a verdict has come down in an eminent domain case in which the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority took a 3777 sq. ft. building (including a billboard) from the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The county’s “final” offer was $1,500,000, but after the court decided a motion in limine in the […]