Coble v. City of Mansfield

OPINION

ANNE GARDNER, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

This is a condemnation case. The issue is whether costs of a screening wall and landscaping constituted compensable damages to the remainder of property of Appellant, John Wayne Coble, resulting from the taking by Appellee, the City of Mansfield, of an easement covering 2.42 acres of Coble’s tract for a road construction project. Because we hold that Coble is precluded, as a matter of law, from recovering compensation for the costs in question because they are speculative and conjectural, we affirm the judgment of the trial court awarding Coble no…