Raza Narayana Gajapatiraju v Revenue Divisional Officer, Vizagapatan (The Indian Case): PC 1939

Land was to be acquired for anti-malarial works relating to a harbour development. Lord Romer rejected the suggestion in a compulsory purchase valuation that it would be possible to ascertain the potential special value of land to a ‘special purchaser’ by imagining an auction, as being ‘an entire waste of the arbitrator’s imagination’. Potentiality should be valued even if the only likely purchaser is the acquiring authority itself.

Judges:

Lord Collins, Lord Romer

Citations:

[1939] AC 302

Cited by:

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Commonwealth, Land, Damages

Updated: 02 May 2022; Ref: scu.372333