City of Cloquet v. Crandall

OPINION

ROSS, Judge.

This condemnation appeal concerns only the compensation method and amount; it *650does not concern the authority to condemn or who should receive the compensation. The City of Cloquet exercised its eminent domain authority to take commercial real property that Kerry and Julie Crandall were purchasing under a contract for deed. The district court set the Crandalls’ compensation at $198,000 under the minimum-compensation provisions of Minnesota Statutes section 117.187 (2008), reasoning that contract for deed purchasers are “owners” entitled to minimum compensation as measured by…