"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
--The city can install new lines through my property after it has paid me for it. People in the Mountain West take their property rights zealously. Its not like the government had no advance warning the guy was going to protect his property. He owned it - not the state. --
They had an easement. Go read your deed. I bet you have an easement with restrictions on what you can do with that part of your property.
Almost. How can anyone truly "own" property when it is perpetually taxed under threat of government takeover?
If the deed mentions a pre-existing easement, that means that even though you bought that property, you cannot use that portion of the property represented by the easement. That information is clearly stated on plats in town offices, on official surveys, and in deeds, when land is purchased.
He owned it - not the state.
If there was an easement on the property when he bought it, it *is* "the state's." It's called doing due dilligence when you buy the property.
If the easement was procured after he bought it, a few things would have happened that he would have been well aware of before they just "showed up one morning."