Potomac Valley Soil Conservation District v. Wilkins

BROTHERTON, Justice:

The Potomac Valley Soil Conservation District (PVSCD), appeals from an August 26, 1991, final order of the Circuit Court of Hardy County denying the PVSCD the relief it requested in applications in which it sought to exercise the power of eminent domain and condemn certain land for public use.

The appellant, PVSCD, is a public body corporate, and a political subdivision of the State of West Virginia. The district is comprised of elected landowners from a five-county jurisdiction: Mineral, Hardy, Grant, Pendleton, and Hampshire counties.1 The soil conservation district’s…