City of Anson v. Harper

How courts have described this case

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

• holding mineral owner’s allegations and evidence established potential claim for damage caused by city’s surface work despite city’s contention it was acting under its surface ownership rights
• “Nor must plaintiffs show that a direct benefit flowed to the public from the damage done to plaintiffs’ copper deposit.”
• “The public benefitted from the City’s dirt work because it was done to help construct a public landfill.”
• “What might happen if the City’s permit application is approved does not present a ripe controversy....”
• “ a court is obliged to ascertain that subject matter jurisdiction exists regardless of whether the parties have questioned it”
• “The City’s chain of title establishes that it was on actual notice of plaintiffs’ ownership interest.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).