A Pennsylvania man has failed to show that the public at large is the "primary and paramount beneficiary" of his request to build a private road on his neighbor’s land that leads to his two landlocked parcels, an Allegheny County judge has ruled.
Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas Judge Eugene E. Fike II’s ruling is the most recent development in a protracted case that has already heard from a sharply divided state Supreme Court, which held in 2010 that "the constitutions of the United States and Pennsylvania mandate that private property can only be taken to serve a public purpose."
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