Burns v. Board of Sup'rs of Fairfax Cty.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that an inverse condemnation claim is “a contract action under Article I, Section 11 of the Constitution of Virginia” (emphasis added)
• taking land to create a drainage ditch to permit a private development held to be a public benefit because the easement was held by the city
• action under Art. I, § ll’s prohibition against damaging private property for public uses, without just compensation; constitutional right to compensation enforceable by a common law implied contract action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).