Soule v. State

This is an “ appropriation claim” which is not predicated on a formal statutory taking of claimants’ real property. No notice of appropriation with an accompanying map was ever served on any of the claimants. They maintain that by other acts the State has “ de facto ” taken this property without compensation to them.

It is undisputed that the State was engaged in a project known as the Lake Onondaga West Shore — North West Arterial Connection Development. It filed maps showing real property being *893permanently appropriated for that purpose. The unimproved land allegedly owned by claimants was…