Water District No. 1 of Johnson County v. Prairie Center Development, L.L.C.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Luckert, J.:

Water District No. 1 of Johnson County, Kansas, (referred to by the parties as WaterOne) filed an eminent domain petition in the district court seeking to condemn 10 tracts of land “[s]ubject to existing easements of record.” Prairie Center Development, L.L.C., owned each of the tracts in fee simple. After die district court'granted the petition, D.P. and Wanda Bonham and the D.P. and Wanda Bonham Trust (hereinafter the Bonhams)— who were not parties to the condemnation proceeding — filed both an appeal of the condemnation award and a…