Court Opinion

ID: 9682201
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 08:07:29.840035+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:38.054874
License: Public Domain

ON PETITION TO REHEAR
The City of Manchester has filed a petition to rehear and for clarification.
We held:
a. That the City of Manchester has the right to condemn.
b. That the damages would be determined in accordance with § 6-320 T.C.A.
c. That on remand the trial judge would try the issues as if this case were an inverse condemnation suit, with the jury of view eliminated.
Condemnation had not been completed and we did not so hold. The City may proceed with the suit or it may dismiss, at its option. It may construct its own system or it may franchise a competing system, or it may exercise numerous other options and alternatives. But if it elects to continue, the measure of damages and method of their ascertainment are as herein fixed.
The petition is
Overruled.
LEECH, Special Justice, and COOPER and BROCK, JJ., concurring.
HARBISON, J., not participating.