1 Ohio Ch. 132 | Ohio | 1832
The question most pressed upon the court, is the supposed constitutional inhibition to taking private property for public use, without compensation in money be first made. Con. Art. 8, sec. 4. This question has been repeatedly before this court, and the courts of other states, and it has been uniformly held, that the state, by virtue of its transcendental or sovereign power, its eminent domain, may take the .private property of one citizen for the good of the whole. The constitution limits the exercise of- this power to cases where a compensation in money is made. In practice, this clause has been deemed complied with, where the
Judgment for the defendant.