Prout v. Dep't of Transp.

*204Loren Prout filed an inverse condemnation action, alleging Department of Transportation (Caltrans) violated the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution in 2010 by physically occupying without compensation a long, narrow strip of Prout's land fronting State Highway 12, to make highway improvements. The land taken was a 1.31-acre strip, 20 feet wide *487and about 6,095 feet long. Caltrans cross-complained for breach of contract, promissory estoppel, and specific performance, alleging Prout agreed to dedicate the strip by deed for highway purposes 20 years earlier when he obtained an…