Varallo v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville

OPINION

SHRIVER, Presiding Judge.

This is an inverse condemnation case which was filed in the Circuit Court of Davidson County by the landowners, Frank and Eva Reale Varallo, against the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County. The suit resulted from the improvement of Craighead Street, sometimes referred to as Craighead Avenue, an old two-lane street with drainage ditches on either side which was extended to a four-lane thoroughfare with storm sewers.

Defendant-appellant claimed an existing dedicated sixty foot right-of-way and, in addition, condemned a narrow strip varying…