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CITY OF LAUREL v. POWERS

No. 50659.

366 So.2d 1079 (1979)

The CITY OF LAUREL, a Municipal Corporation, the Laurel Urban Renewal Agency, a Body Corporate and Politic, v. Viola D. POWERS and Curtis N. Jones.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

January 10, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pickering & McKenzie, Franklin C. McKenzie, Jr., Gibbes, Graves, Mullins, Bullock & Ferris, Ernest W. Graves, Laurel, for appellant.

Lunsford Casey, Thomas Gene Clark, Laurel, for appellee.

Before PATTERSON, SUGG and BOWLING, JJ.

SUGG, Justice, for the Court:

This is an appeal from a final decree of the Chancery Court of Jones County, awarding damages to complainants, Curtis N. Jones and Viola D. Powers, for taking private property by the City of Laurel by inverse condemnation. The complainants owned Lot 7 of the Commercial Block Addition to the City of Laurel, and on September 18, 1959, Jones executed a deed which conveyed his one-half interest in Lot 7 to the city. His deed provided for...

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