City of Yuma v. Lattie

OPINION

EUBANK, Judge.

This is an appeal by the city of Yuma from a jury verdict in favor of the appellee, who brought an inverse eminent domain action for damages to her real property. The damages were the result of street improvements constructed as a part of a special assessment district. Specifically, appellee’s claims for damages were for the impairment of her ingress and egress and from the increase in the probability of flooding to her property resulting from a change in the grade of a street.

The facts are that appellee was the owner of Lot 13 and the south half of Lot 14, of the Los…