City of Richmond v. Dervishian

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• holding that the lower court properly found that a parking lot was acquired for a public use, despite the argument that the lot will primarily benefit two nearby retail stores
• the court found landowner’s defense of the invalidity of the city’s taking proper although the general condemnation statutes do not expressly provide for such defense
• “The mode of exercising the right of eminent domain is within the unlimited discretion of the General Assembly, so long as the landowner’s constitutional rights are protected.”

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