Opinion ID: 2804699
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Heading: Original Petition

Text: ODOT filed a petition in federal court to condemn 1.88 acres of a 5.16 acre parcel of land owned by Crow Real Estate Investments, LLC and Crow Enterprises, LLC (collectively, “Crow”) for highway expansion. ODOT named as defendants Crow, which operated a car dealership on the property; Arvest, which then held a argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(f); 10th Cir. R. 34.1(G). The case is therefore ordered submitted without oral argument. This order and judgment is not binding precedent, except under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, and collateral estoppel. It may be cited, however, for its persuasive value consistent with Fed. R. App. P. 32.1 and 10th Cir. R. 32.1. -2- first-priority mortgage lien on the property for $468,040.27; the SBA, which held second-priority lien on the property for $129,022.45; and the County Treasurer of Ottawa County, Oklahoma. See Okla. ex rel. Dep’t of Transp. v. Lamar Adver. of Okla., Inc., 335 P.3d 771, 775 (Okla. 2014) (“[P]roperty interests entitled to [condemnation] compensation include every valuable interest that can be enjoyed and recognized as property.”). In Oklahoma, “[c]ondemnation proceedings are begun by one party filing a petition in district court to appoint a commission made up of three disinterested landowners to determine the amount of just compensation.” Indep. Sch. Dist. No. 5 v. Taylor, 324 P.3d 415, 420 (Okla. Civ. App. 2013) (internal quotation marks omitted). After inspecting and assessing the property, the commission files a report with the district court assessing the just compensation for the taking. Id. at 421; Okla. Stat. tit. 69, § 1203(c). The interested property holders then have a right to demand a jury trial on the issues of damages in a condemnation proceeding. Taylor, 324 P.3d at 421; Okla. Stat. tit. 69, § 1203(e). A jury verdict sets the final damage award and supersedes the commissioners’ assessment of just compensation. City of Okla. City v. Garnett, 296 P.2d 766, 767 (Okla. 1956); Okla. Stat. tit. 69, § 1203(e). “[T]he ‘date of taking’ is established when the condemner pays the commissioners’ award into court.” Okla. ex rel. Dep’t of Transp. v. Post, 125 P.3d 1183, 1188 (Okla. 2005). -3-