Boswell v. Prince George's County

Landowners when faced with a proposed acquisition of their land for public improvements, whether by way of easement or in fee simple, have often suggested to the courts that they saw a better way to do the improvement than that proposed by the condemning authority. See, e.g., Director v. Oliver Beach Imp. Ass’n, 259 Md. 183, 269 A. 2d 615 (1970); State Roads Comm. v. Franklin, 201 Md. 549, 95 A. 2d 99 (1953); Johnson v. Gas & Electric Co., 187 Md. 454, 50 A. 2d 918 (1947); and Murphy v. State Roads Comm’n., 159 Md. 7, 149 A. 566 (1930). They have been uniformly unsuccessful in this Court. In…