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Keystone Coal Eminent Domain Case Ends

JACKSONVILLE, FL-JaxPort agrees to pay $6.6 million in legal fees rather than appeal.

By Carl Cronan | Updated on March 29, 2009

(Carl Cronan is editor of Real Estate Florida.)

JACKSONVILLE, FL-A three-year eminent domain battle between the city’s Port Authority and Keystone Coal Co. appears to have reached a conclusion with the authority’s board of directors unanimously approving payment of $6.6 million in attorneys’ fees and related claims last week. The authority abandoned its taking of the 70-acre tract last July and decided not to appeal a circuit judge’s decision awarding a higher amount in legal fees.

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