Legal Opinion
Reel Enterprises v. CITY OF LAW CROSSE
Court of Appeals of Wisconsin
Decided September 29, 1988No. 86-0746PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGartzke, P.J.
Reel Enterprises, its individual partners and Swanson Heavy Moving Company, Inc., appeal from a judgment dismissing their complaint for inverse condemnation against the City of La Crosse and the Department of Natural Resources. The theory of the complaint is that the DNR’s acts in pursuit of but before the adoption of a floodplain zoning ordinance for the city, pursuant to sec. 87.30, Stats., and DNR’s other acts, "took” the plaintiffs’ properties for public use without compensation.
The circuit court concluded that since the zoning ordinance had not become legally effective, this suit had…
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