Brooks Investment Co. v. City of Bloomington

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that “the de facto taking creates in the condemnor an interest equivalent to title by condemnation”
• street illegally constructed across land prior to sale of property, held owner at time of construction rather than subsequent owner entitled to recover
• “If the rule were otherwise, the original owner of damaged property would suffer a loss and the purchaser of that property would receive a windfall.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).