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CINCINNATI v. VESTER

Nos. 372, 373, and 374.

281 U.S. 439 (1930)

CINCINNATI v. VESTER. SAME v. RICHARDS ET AL. SAME v. REAKIRT.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 19, 1930.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. John D. Ellis, City Solicitor of Cincinnati, and Ed. F. Alexander, Assistant City Solicitor, for petitioner.

Mr. John Weld Peck, with whom Messrs. Milton Sayler and Frank H. Shaffer, Jr., were on the brief, for respondents.

Messrs. Gilbert Bettman, Attorney General of Ohio, and L.F. Laylin, by special leave of Court, filed a brief as amici curiae, on behalf of the State of Ohio.

Messrs. Hamilton Ward, Attorney General of New York, and Henry S. Manley, Assistant Attorney General, by special leave of Court, filed a brief as amici curiae, on behalf of the State of New York.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court.

These three cases were heard together. The suits were brought by owners of land in the City of Cincinnati to restrain the appropriation of their property by the City, upon the grounds that the taking was not in accordance with the applicable provisions of the constitution and statutes of Ohio and would constitute a deprivation of property without due process of law in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment...

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