Howell Plaza, Inc. v. State Highway Commission

The appellant Howell Plaza, Inc., hereinafter petitioner, acquired a sixty-acre parcel of land located at the corner of Howell Avenue and Puetz Road in the City of Oak Creek in 1959. Approximately ten or eleven acres of this property has been developed with a bank, post office building, shopping center and fast food operation occupying one corner of the tract. The rest of the land remains vacant.

The petitioner, through its president and primary stockholder, Reuben Kritzik, testified that it first became aware of the proposed highway project known as the “Belt Freeway” in 1967 or 1968 through…