State v. Howington

Our review of the trial court’s summary judgment is de novo.

I doubt if any Alabama judge or Justice has had his or her property acquired by eminent domain as often as I have. The federal government acquired property in which I owned an interest for the im-poundment of Lake Eufaula (Lake Walter F. George) and later to establish a Canadian Goose Fly Way (the Eufaula Wildlife Refuge). The State of Alabama acquired property in which I owned an interest to create the Barbour County Wildlife Refuge and to extend and widen two roads (U.S. Highway 431 and Alabama Highway 165). Because of this…