Spear v. State Highway Board

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• speculating that if property owners were entitled to compensation for loss of traffic flow, “[w]hole communities might be seeking damage”
• stating that when a highway relocation project has resulted in the loss of business, “the legislature has never attempted to provide compensation____Our statute relates business loss to property taken, not to highway relocation.”
• denying compensation for business loss resulting from relocation of highway despite the taking of a piece of land across the road from the property owner’s business

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).