Victor Co. v. State Ex Rel. Head

Rogosheske, Justice.

Appeal from an order denying a landowner’s petition for an alternative writ of mandamus seeking to compel the state to institute condemnation proceedings to assess consequential damages claimed suffered by reason of the state’s taking of petitioner’s parking lot for highway purposes.

Prior to the condemnation proceedings instituted by the state, petitioner was the owner of real property in the city of Minneapolis on which was situated its manufacturing plant and a parking lot located about one-half block from the manufacturing plant providing off-street parking for its…