National By-Products, Inc. v. City of Little Rock

Bradley D. Jesson, Chief Justice.

The appellant, National By-Products, Inc. (“National”), filed a suit for inverse condemnation against the appellee, City of Little Rock, acting through the Little Rock Regional Airport Commission (“Commission”). National owns property near the airport on which it operates an animal by-products rendering plant. In its complaint and amended complaint, National claimed that the Commission’s plans to expand a runway through its property amounted to a “taking” in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Ark. Const. art. 2, § 22.…