City of Lakewood v. Rogolsky

This matter comes before the court upon an appeal from the decision of a referee apportioning a share of a landowner’s appropriation award to a billboard advertising sign company which had two billboards erected on the premises taken.

Relationship between the parties originated from a lease between I. D. Rogolsky, owner of the property, and Central Outdoor Advertising Co., predecessor to the Foster and Kleiser Division of Metromedia, Inc., the defendant herein. The lease, executed in 1952, was for a five-year term and renewable thereafter on an annual basis at the option of the billboard…