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Similar eminent domain acquisitions include the 1904 United States v. Five Tracts of land [ 50 ] that seized land near Reynolds Grove [ 51 ] and, on September 18, 1905, [ 5 ] Cunningham Grove . The 1974 Gettysburg National Tower , which was on private land not used for military engagements and which had been granted use of federal land, was ...
The most common uses of property taken by eminent domain have been for roads, government buildings and public utilities. Many railroads were given the right of eminent domain to obtain land or easements in order to build and connect rail networks. In the mid-20th century, a new application of eminent domain was pioneered, in which the ...
The case deals with the legal concepts of eminent domain and strict liability (which received attention as a result of the need to address new and expanding issues created by the emergence and growth of railroads in the United States during the nineteenth century), [3] and occupies a significant place in the historical background of eminent ...
Jul. 27—The Texas Supreme Court recently affirmed in a 5-3 decision that Texas Central has the right to exercise eminent domain power in building the proposed high speed rail from Dallas to Houston.
The Hueneme, Malibu & Port Los Angeles Railway was a standard-gauge, 15-mile railroad (24 km) in Malibu, California. It was founded by Frederick Hastings Rindge (1857–1905) and operated on his 13,000-acre ranch (5,300 ha) along the coast, which encompassed most of what is today Malibu.
Eminent domain has been used to acquire land from African-Americans for urban renewal redevelopments [25] and in other cases to dispossess them and remove them from areas where their presence was not desired by white neighbors, e.g. Bruce's Beach subdivision in Los Angeles, California. [26]
The Gettysburg Electric Railway Company was chartered August 4, 1891, [2] and incorporated July 28, 1892. [27] In January 1893 [ 13 ] the borough of Gettysburg granted trolley right-of-way for all principal streets, [ 28 ] and the $150,000 bond was for street operations planned for July 1, 1893.
[53] [54] The key legal issue is whether Texas Central qualifies as a "railroad company" or an "interurban electric railway," and whether an entity must show reasonable probability of project completion to invoke eminent domain authority under Texas Rice Land Partners, LTD. v. Denbury Green Pipeline-Texas, LLC, 363 S.W.3d 192 (Tex. 2012). [55] [56]