by Bill Peacock
Texas Public Policy Foundation
March 14, 2013
Private property can only be taken through eminent domain if that property is necessary for a public use. Yet there is no requirement in law that private property, once taken, actually be used for the public use for which it was taken. Texas law should require that private property must be initially used for the public use for which the condemnor claimed it was necessary.



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