City of Cincinnati v. Vester. Same v. Richards Same v. Reakirt

How courts have described this case

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• holding that condemnation proceedings by a municipality exercised outside the grant of authority conferred by the legislature were void
• noting in dicta that “private takings” violate the “Fourteenth Amendment”, with no reference to the Due Process Clause
• city could not condemn private property without basis for finding the taking would serve public purpose; city’s possible future sale of such property to others could not justify taking

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).