Gorham v. PUBLIC BLDG. AUTH. OF CITY OF PROVIDENCE

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• holding that reliance on appraiser's valuation of real estate which was purely speculative and based on conjecture was clearly wrong
• stating that a landowner is entitled to just compensation as of the date of the taking
• “[A] taking * * * occurs when the right to enter and take possession accrues. The condemning authority’s right to possession generally accrues upon the passage of title.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).