Water District No. 1 of Johnson County v. Prairie Center Development, L.L.C.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF KANSAS No. 112,973 WATER DISTRICT NO. 1 OF JOHNSON COUNTY, KANSAS, Appellee, v. PRAIRIE CENTER DEVELOPMENT, L.L.C., et al., Defendants, and D.P. BONHAM and WANDA BONHAM, Individually, and as Trustees of the D.P. AND WANDA BONHAM TRUST, Appellants. SYLLABUS BY THE COURT 1. In Kansas, the Eminent Domain Procedure Act provides the only avenue through which the government can exercise its eminent domain power. A statute conferring the right to exercise the power of eminent domain is to be strictly construed in light of the objectives and the purposes sought to…