Wilson v. City of Fayetteville

Robert L. Brown, Justice.

The appellant, John Vernon Wilson, is a landowner in Fayetteville who had eminent domain proceedings commenced against him in 1977 for a triangular piece of his land. The city wished to use the land for a traffic signal control panel and to relocate a sewer line. It paid into the court registry $100 as just compensation. More than eleven years later, a trial was held on October 5, 1988, and judgment was entered on October 11, 1988. The jury placed the value of the land at $29,000. The circuit court, however, refused to assess prejudgment interest, and the case was…