VIVID, INC. v. FIEDLER

No. 96-1900.

219 Wis.2d 764 (1998)

580 N.W.2d 644

VIVID, INC., a Wisconsin corporation, Petitioner-Respondent, v. Ronald R. FIEDLER, Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Transportation and Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Respondents-Appellants-Petitioners.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided July 2, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the respondents-appellants-petitioners the cause argued by Robert W. Larson, assistant attorney general, with whom on the briefs was James E. Doyle, attorney general.

For the petitioner-respondent there was a brief by Thomas S. Hornig, Marc T. McCrory and Brennan, Steil, Basting & MacDougall, S.C., Janesville and oral argument by Thomas S. Hornig.


¶ 1. WILLIAM A. BABLITCH, J.

This case involves the question of the proper determination of just compensation for outdoor advertising signs, owned by Vivid, Inc. (Vivid), that the State of Wisconsin removed in 1989 in conjunction with a highway improvement project along Interstate 90. Three issues are presented. 1) Does Wis. Stat. § 84.30 provide the exclusive remedy for just compensation for these signs? We conclude it does. 2) Does just compensation for...

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