Eck v. City of Bismarck

VANDE WALLE, Justice.

Mrs. Enola Eck brought an action for inverse condemnation against the City of Bismarck in the district court. She contended that because the City enacted, and subsequently refused to amend, a zoning ordinance limiting her use of her property to agricultural purposes, the City must pay her the reasonable value of her land. 1

For many years, Mrs. Eck has owned land approximately one mile from Bismarck in Apple Creek Township, Burleigh County, North Dakota. Apple Creek Township zoned the land for agricultural use. In April 1978, exercising extraterritorial zoning powers…