Derby Heights, Inc. v. Gantt Water & Sewer District

Legge, Justice.

In nine actions, tried together, recovery of “just compensation” was sought against the defendant, Gantt Water & Sewer District, a public corporation, for its alleged taking of water lines that the plaintiffs had installed to serve their respective properties. In seven of them the Master, finding that there had been a taking, recommended judgment for the plaintiffs with interest from August 1, 1958, the date of their demand for compensation. In two, he found that the plaintiffs’ lines had not, at the time of the trial, been taken into the defendant’s water distribution system;…