State Highway Commission v. Stumbo

How courts have described this case

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

• taking occurs “at the time of the physical invasion, for the landowner is by this process ousted from any further use of his property except the right to claim a reasonable value for its occupation...”
• “The common law maxim, ‘quicquid plantatur solo, solo cedit,’ (whatever is affixed to the soil belongs to the soil) has rarely been applied to make a trespassing corporation, invested with the power of eminent domain, pay the value of its own improvements.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).