Camelio v. Shady Glen Owners' Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that assessing against property owner the cost of public improvements to road abutting owner’s property was a taking under Fifth Amendment to the extent assessment substantially exceeded value of special benefits caused by improvements
• preventing circumvention of the Takings Clause by prohibiting the government from imposing a special assessment for the full value of a property in advance of condemning it
• holding a local government takes private property without just compensation when, through a special assessment on land, it compels a landowner to pay for a public improvement in an amount \in substantial excess of the special benefits accruing to him\
• upholding special assessment of abutting property owners for road construction because of the \special or peculiar benefits accruing\ to them
• holding a local government takes private property without just' compensation when, through a special assessment on land, 'it compels a landowner to pay for a public improvement in an amount “in substantial excess of the special benefits accruing to him”
• upholding special assessment of abutting property owners for road construction because of the “special or peculiar benefits accruing” to them

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).