Cooke v. Pope's Administrator

How courts have described this case

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• “The power of eminent domain is inherent in the state, yet it lies dormant until called into exercise by express legislative authority[.] * * * [Statutes providing for condemnation should be strictly construed.” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).