City of Bryant v. Springhill Water & Sewer Services, Inc.

I would reverse the decision for other reasons, but I would not allow the city to dismiss its action after it had taken the property.

750 S.W.2d 61

The power of eminent domain is awesome. Private property owners who have been subjected to the arbitrary and often abusive use of this power can attest to that. The courts have always liberally interpreted the law to favor the use of that power. Abuses of the power are often overlooked in the name of “progress,” or some other misguided concept of our society. Columbia County Rural Development Authority and the City of Magnolia, Arkansas v. Hudgens,…