City of Detroit v. Weber

On July 18, 1973, plaintiff City of Detroit filed a complaint seeking condemnation for public purposes of approximately 31 separately owned adjacent parcels of land.1 The plaintiff requested the empanelling of a jury to determine: (1) whether it was necessary to make the proposed public improvements, to wit, a cultural science center, in the municipality; (2) whether it was necessary to take the described private property for the use and benefit of the public; and (3) the just compensation to be made for the property proposed to be taken and to whom same should be paid.

A pretrial conference…