GREENSBORO-HIGH POINT AIRPORT, ETC. v. IRVIN

No. 8118SC187.

283 S.E.2d 171 (1981)

GREENSBORO-HIGH POINT AIRPORT AUTHORITY v. Pearl Taylor IRVIN, Charles Watson Irvin, Jr. and wife, Mary S. Irvin, John Lafayette Irvin and wife, Nancy B. Irvin, Doris Irvin Egerton and husband, George G. Egerton.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

October 20, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cooke & Cooke by Arthur O. Cooke and William Owen Cooke, Greensboro, for plaintiff-appellee.

Dees, Johnson, Tart, Giles & Tedder by J. Sam Johnson, Jr., Greensboro, and Hugh P. Griffin, Jr., Reidsville, for defendants-appellants.


ARNOLD, Judge.

The question presented by this appeal is whether, for the purpose of assessing the value of defendants' land, the date of taking was the date the petition was filed or the date of trial, some five years after petition.

The Airport Authority's position is that North Carolina cases consistently have held that the value of land taken by eminent domain "should be ascertained as of the date of the taking ..." and that "the land is taken within the...

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