Herman v. City of Wichita

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Prager, J.:

This is an inverse condemnation case brought by certain landowners against the city of Wichita for a declaratory judgment and to recover just compensation for access rights taken by the city in converting a street to a limited access highway. The facts of the case are not in dispute and essentially are as follows: The plaintiffs, the Hermans, were owners of a tract of land along old Kellogg Street in Wichita. When Kellogg Street was changed to a controlled access facility, plaintiffs’ property lost its direct access to the highway and…