City of Phoenix v. Wade

LAWRENCE HOWARD, Superior Court Judge.

This is an appeal by the City of Phoenix from a jury award in a condemnation proceeding. Approximately twenty years prior to the time the eminent domain proceedings commenced, the appellees purchased vacant land located at the southwest corner of the intersection of West Dunlap Avenue and North Seventh Avenue in Phoenix, Arizona. At that time Dunlap Avenue was known as Olive Road and was a narrow, unpaved road which ended at Seventh Avenue. Both Dunlap and Seventh Avenue were dedicated to a width of 66 feet with a 50-foot paved strip down the center of…