Lindsay v. Commissioners
Lindsay v. Commissioners, 2 S.C.L. 38 (1796), was an early American case in South Carolina that found that a government taking to build a public road did not require compensation to the deprived property owners. The case as since been overturned by the interpretation of the "just compensation" requirement of the Fifth Amendment.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Casner, A.J. et al. Cases and Text on Property, Fifth Edition. Aspen Publishers, New York, NY: 2004, p. 1179