Following unsuccessful litigation regarding landowner’s efforts to construct and operate a rubble landfill, landowner filed a separate inverse condemnation case alleging that county’s actions constituted an unconstitutional taking of its property.
The Circuit Court entered judgment on general jury verdict for landowner. County appealed, and the Court of Special Appeals reversed and remanded. Landowner petitioned for writ of certiorari and county cross-petitioned for conditional writ, which the Court of Appeals granted.
The Court of Appeals held that landowner’s failure to exhaust administrative remedies by bringing inverse condemnation claim before county board of appeals precluded landowner from prevailing in subsequent stand-alone action.