Hasselblad v. City of Green Bay

The plaintiffs, Walter and Marie Hasselblad, d/b/a Hasselblad Machine Company, seek to have declared unconstitutional the Wisconsin statute setting a $50,000 limit on business replacement damages in eminent domain proceedings. They claim that the limit is contrary to art. I, sec. 13, of the Wisconsin Constitution, which provides: "The property of no person shall be taken for public use without just compensation therefor.” Because the Hasselblads have failed to demonstrate the statute unconstitutional beyond a reasonable doubt, we affirm.

The Hasselblads were business partners whose commercial…