Kevin Wayne Deggs v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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• relying on Burks, defined the date of taking as the date when the condemnor is vested in the right to possess and control the property, which is the date the order of entry is made permanent
• loss of view, impaired ingress and egress and circuitous indirect access, were compensable consequential elements of damages on partial taking
• consequential damages, such as loss of view and impaired ingress and egress, are compensable elements of damage
• statute codifies measure of damages in cases of partial taking, “in harmony and compliance with the payment of just compensation for the taking of private property as required by Article II, Section 20”
• “[Tjhe reason that most eminent domain statutes fix the time as of which property taken or damaged is to be valued is that values of real estate are not constant and sometimes change greatly before proceedings are completed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).