City of Cleveland v. Zimmerman

This matter comes before the court npon an appeal from the decision of a referee apportioning a part of a landowner’s appropriation award to a bill-hoard advertising sign company, which had two billboards erected npon the otherwise vacant property that was taken.

The central question to be considered herein is to what extent can the billboard advertising sign company participate in the award as compensation for damages as the result of the termination of its leasehold interest?

Setting forth the relationship of the parties is a lease which was originally entered into on September 10, 1962, by…