Knight v. City of Billings

This is an appeal from a judgment by the District Court, Thirteenth Judicial District, Yellowstone County, finding no inverse condemnation by the City of Billings of residential properties owned by the plaintiffs.

Plaintiffs are individual homeowners who own residences on the west side of 24th Street West between Lewis and Broad-water Avenues in Billings. They purchased their properties in the years between 1954 and 1976.

Twenty-fourth Street West is a major arterial street in Billings. It provides substantial “desire-line” access from a large portion of the Billings environs to a substantial…