BLEVINS v. JOHNSON COUNTY


746 S.W.2d 678 (1988)

Richard Michael BLEVINS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. JOHNSON COUNTY, Tennessee, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Knoxville.

February 22, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W.J. Michael Cody, Atty. Gen. & Reporter, Nashville, Roger D. Hyman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Knoxville, Gary C. Shockley (at trial), Baker, Worthington, Crossley, Stansberry & Woolf, Rick J. Bearfield (at trial), Johnson City, for defendant-appellant.

Max E. Wilson, Wilson & Wilson, Mountain City, Lewis Merryman, Elizabethton, for plaintiff-appellee.


OPINION

DROWOTA, Justice.

This inverse condemnation case was brought by Plaintiff, Richard M. Blevins, against Johnson County, Tennessee, Defendant. The suit arose out of the reconstruction of U.S. Highway 421 in Mountain City. The issues presented by the State of Tennessee, which defended Johnson County, are (1) whether any taking has occurred when the State has exercised its police powers within the boundaries of property already owned by it, and (2) whether...

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