California Court of Appeal
City of Stockton v. Marina Towers, LLC, C054495
In an eminent domain action, grant of plaintiff-city's motion for nonsuit and denial for compensation for defendant's precondemnation activities is reversed where the project description in the resolutions of necessity was so vague, uncertain and sweeping in scope that it failed to specify the "public use" for which plaintiff-city sought acquisition of the property.
Appellate Information
- Decided 02/13/2009
- Published 02/13/2009
Judges
- BUTZ, J.
Court
- California Court of Appeal
Counsel
- For Appellees:
- Matteoni, O'Laughlin & Hechtman, Norman E. Matteoni, Peggy M. O'Laughlin, Bradley M. Matteoni and Gerald Houlihan, San Jose, for Defendants and Appellants., Freeman, D'Aiuto, Pierce, Gurev, Keeling & Wolf, Maxwell M. Freeman, Thomas H. Keeling, Arnold J. Wolf, Stockton; and Richard E. Nosky, Jr., City Attorney (Stockton), for Plaintiff and Respondent.