Wilson v. City of Fayetteville

In 1977, the City of Fayetteville deemed it necessary to condemn a tract of appellant Wilson’s land and deposited $100.00 in the registry of the trial court as the amount necessary to make compensation for the land taken. See Ark. Code Ann. § 18-15-303(b)(1) (1987). The City then obtained an order of possession for the land, see Ark. Code Ann. § 18-15-303(b)(2) (1987), and has possessed the land since then. The appellant has had the $100.00, and the interest it has earned over that period of time. In October 1988, more than eleven years after the taking, the condemnation case was heard, and…