Reel Enterprises v. City La Crosse

Reel Enterprises, its individual partners and Swanson Heavy Moving Company, Inc., appeal from a judgment dismissing their
complaint for inverse condemnation against the City of La Crosse and the Department of Natural Resources. The theory of the
complaint is that the DNR's acts in pursuit of but before the adoption of a floodplain zoning ordinance for the city, pursuant
to sec. 87.30, Stats., and DNR's other acts, "took" the plaintiffs' properties for public use without compensation. 1 The circuit court concluded that since the zoning ordinance had not become legally effective, this suit had been prematurely
commenced. It dismissed the complaint without prejudice to plaintiffs' right to bring another suit if the ordinance became
effective.