Court favors landowners in prominent eminent domain case
Ohio Farm Bureau and the Union County Farm Bureau have been involved in a court case.
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Ohio Farm Bureau and the Union County Farm Bureau have been involved in a court case.
The Ohio Third District Court of Appeals is blocking construction of a natural gas pipeline on Union County farmland preserved with agricultural easements.
Don Bailey, Successor Trustee to Arno L. Renner, Charles Renner and Patrick and Whitney Bailey, successor landowners and operators of lands preserved by the Arno L. Renner Trust and over which Arno Renner donated an Agricultural Easement to the Ohio Department of Agriculture in 2003 filed the lawsuits in Union County Common Pleas Court. The lawsuits:  1) ask for a writ of mandamus to the ODA, the holder of the Ag Easement, to enforce its terms, and  2) seek injunctive relief and a declaratory judgment against Columbia Gas of Ohio who seeks to acquire commercial gas pipeline easements to Â...