LORE v. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS

[No. 130, September Term, 1975.]

277 Md. 356 (1976)

354 A.2d 812

LORE ET UX. v. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS OF STATE OF MARYLAND

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided April 7, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Oliver R. Guyther for appellants.

Glenn B. Harten, Special Attorney, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, and Nolan H. Rogers, Special Assistant Attorney General, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SINGLEY, SMITH, DIGGES, LEVINE, ELDRIDGE and O'DONNELL, JJ.


DIGGES, J., delivered the opinion of the Court. MURPHY, C.J., dissents and filed a dissenting opinion at page 361 infra.

In this case we are called upon to decide whether landowners whose property is taken through the exercise of the State's power of eminent domain are entitled to interest on the compensatory award, to be computed from the date of the entry of the judgment nisi on the inquisition to the time of payment. We conclude that they are.

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