State ex rel. Blank v. Beasley

{¶ 1} The matters before the court are original actions seeking writs of mandamus to compel the director of the Ohio Department of Transportation to appropriate relators’ real property. Because these cases raise similar legal issues, we have consolidated them for resolution. We grant the writs with respect to the damages caused by the contractor’s intentional operation and parking of heavy construction equipment on the relators’ parking lots, which were not part of the appropriation, but were nonetheless taken for public use; we deny the requested writs with respect to the remaining damages…