Coral-Glade Co. v. Board of Public Instruction of Dade County

HORTON, Chief Judge.

Appellant, defendant below in an eminent domain proceedings, seeks reversal of a final judgment entered pursuant to a jury verdict fixing the amount of compensation and reasonable attorney’s fees to be paid by the appellee.

The land involved was intended as a subdivision to be known as Coral Garden, but at the time of taking was “raw acreage.”' The proposed subdivision was to consist of 107.7 acres and the land sought to be condemned comprised 22.51 acres thereof. The record reveals that at the time of the taking, preliminary work had been done with a view toward actual…