City of Omaha v. Croft

Suit was instituted in the district court of Douglas county by plaintiff, defendant in error, to recover for the market value of land alleged to have been appropriated by the city of Omaha, plaintiff in error. The plaintiff alleged, in substance, that in the month of October, 1894, the defendant seized and appropriated to its own use a strip of land 50 feet in width and 330 feet in length, staked off and graded the same for boulevard, to plaintiff’s damage in the sum of $6,500. It is also alleged that no sum had been paid by the city for said land, and no proceedings had been taken to condemn…