EMINENT DOMAIN - PUBLIC HOUSING AND SLUM CLEARANCE AS A "PUBLIC USE"

Authors

Wayne E. Babler, University of Michigan Law SchoolFollow

Abstract

The recent legislation providing for housing and slum clearance raises the interesting and practical problem of whether a taking of land for such housing and slum clearance purposes by means of an eminent domain proceeding is condemnation for a "public use," within the meaning of that term in eminent domain proceedings. Such a taking was held to be for a public use in the recent case of Spahn v. Stewart.

Recommended Citation

Wayne E. Babler, EMINENT DOMAIN - PUBLIC HOUSING AND SLUM CLEARANCE AS A "PUBLIC USE", 36 Mich. L. Rev. 275 (1937).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol36/iss2/7