Court Opinion

ID: 9854770
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 06:13:50.741125+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:23:22.925873
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Undercofler, Presiding Justice,
dissenting.
The property being condemned is subject to five separate security deeds on five separate portions. There is one overall appraisal and one deposit for prepayment purposes. But the five security deed holders must litigate among themselves to apportion the deposit before they can exercise their prepayment rights. To them the prepayment rights are meaningless. This is not the intent of the statute requiring prepayment deposits nor the *218constitutional provision under which it was adopted. To give them meaning the state must make separate appraisals under the circumstances here. However, I see no reason why the appeals to the superior court on the inadequacy of compensation can not be tried together although there may be separate consequential damages and the issues quite complex. See State v. Hemmingson, 57 Wash. 2d 635 (359 P2d 154) (1961); Cook v. State Hwy. Bd., 162 Ga. 84, 101 (7) (132 SE 902) (1926); Kennedy v. State Hwy. Dept., 108 Ga. App. 1 (132 SE2d 135) (1963).
I am authorized to state that Chief Justice Nichols concurs in this dissent.