IN RE ACQUISITION OF BILLBOARD LEASES AND EASEMENTS

Docket Nos. 152447, 152448, 152449, 152450, 156802.

205 Mich. App. 659 (1994)

517 N.W.2d 872

In re ACQUISITION OF BILLBOARD LEASES AND EASEMENTS (CITY OF NORTON SHORES v. WHITECO METROCOM) (CITY OF NORTON SHORES v. OCI CORPORATION OF MICHIGAN) (DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION v. OCI CORPORATION OF PORT HURON)

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided June 20, 1994, at 9:15 A.M.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, Patrick F. Isom and Ronald F. Rose, Assistant Attorneys General, and David E. Oppliger, Special Assistant Attorney General, for Department of Transportation.

James J. Kobza, for City of Norton Shores.

Bodman, Longley & Dahling (by James J. Walsh and William L. Hoey), for the defendants.

Amicus Curiae:

Mika, Meyers, Beckett & Jones (by Mary L. Mason, William A. Horn, Neil P. Jansen, and Mary E. Conners), for Michigan Municipal League.

Before: DOCTOROFF, C.J., and CONNOR and E.E. BORRADAILE, JJ.


CONNOR, J.

These consolidated cases are all concerned with the issue of just compensation for private property taken for public use, and they all involve billboards. Each defendant possessed property that was condemned pursuant to the Uniform Condemnation Procedures Act, MCL 213.51 et seq.; MSA 8.265(1) et seq. In each case, the trial court rulings that the defendants could not introduce into evidence estimates of their property's market value based...

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