Section 28 Injunction

• Library: Condemnation Practice 2009

An illegal entry or taking of land without the commencement of any proceedings by the taker will be restrained by a court of equity. Carpenter v. City of St. Joseph, 174 S.W. 53 (Mo. 1915). Injunction may well issue in other situations in which a condemnor is proceeding under unconstitutional or void authority, or for other similar reasons, these cases simply used to point out that other protective relief is afforded a landowner. Certainly, attempts by a condemning authority...