Eminent Domain in Texas By the Numbers.

• About 50% of states allow landowner owners to recover attorney fees in successful eminent domain challenges
• 85% of land owners accept the final offer
  • Texas Civil Justice Leage found that 50% of landowners would go to court if they could be awarded attorney fees on a successful result
  • Florida which permits attorney fees awards has not experienced any of the negative results
• 77% of land owners who take their eminent domain case to court receive 20% or more than the final offer

Houston Chronicle | Eminent domain fight pits two of Texas’ sacred cows against each other