Cleanup costs not part of condemnation valuation 

Posted: 12:20 pm Thu, September 2, 2010
By Barbara L. Jones

A Moorhead property owner who not only received nothing when his land was taken through eminent domain, but was also ordered to pay $475,000 in damages for contamination to neighboring properties, is entitled to a new trial, the Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled. After the property was taken through a quick-take (i.e. an expedited condemnation) proceeding, ...