LAMAR CORP. v. CITY OF RICHMOND

Record No. 900948.

402 S.E.2d 31 (1991)

The LAMAR CORPORATION, et al. v. CITY OF RICHMOND.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

March 1, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sandy T. Tucker (George W. Marget, III; Williams, Mullen, Christian & Dobbins, Richmond, on briefs), for appellants.

Michael L. Sarahan, Asst. City Atty. (G. Timothy Oksman, City Atty., on brief), for appellee.

Present: CARRICO, C.J., COMPTON, STEPHENSON, RUSSELL, WHITING, and LACY, JJ., and COCHRAN, Retired Justice.


LACY, Justice.

The primary issue we must decide on this appeal is whether a lessee, who erects a billboard on the property he leases, has an interest in either the billboard or the underlying property which entitles him to a separate condemnation proceeding to ascertain just compensation when the underlying leasehold property is condemned.

John D. Williams and William K. Norman, Jr., owned certain property located in the City of Richmond just south of the...

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