Court Opinion

ID: 9628045
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 09:05:37.06751+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:06:56.490928
License: Public Domain

VAN CISE, Judge,
specially concurring:
As this case is postured, the result is correct. Here, the Sanitation District had taken possession by trespass during a previous land ownership, and it had no legal right to use or to retain possession of any of this property. As present owners of the land, the Carnies could have required the District to stop using and to remove the sewer line from the premises. Obviously, to prevent that and to obtain title to the easement, the District instituted this condemnation action, admitted that the Carnies were the owners, and asked the court to fix a fair price to be paid to them for the land interest taken.
Under these circumstances, the District is in no position, at the trial and appeal stages in the proceedings, to claim that it is entitled to a clear title to the easement for next to nothing.