Judge rules against Meadow Brook in Phoenixville eminent domain case
“A Chester County judge decided against a group of Meadow Brook Golf Club’s owners who filed objections against Phoenixville Area School District’s acquisition of their property through eminent domain.
Bruce Campbell and Patricia Young make up the CY Group, which owns 50 percent of the golf club and filed their objections in December against the attempted acquisition of their 50.1 acres.
“Because CY Group, Inc. has failed to prove that the taking by the (Phoenixville Area School District) is overbroad and excessive, their preliminary objections are overruled,” Chester County Common Pleas Court Judge Jacqueline Carroll Cody wrote in her decision.
The ruling was filed Friday afternoon but neither the school district nor Meadow Brook’s owners said they had received a copy of the decision.
As such, Campbell said he had no comments.
Joshua Gould, president of the Phoenixville Area School Board, said he’d “heard word of a judge ruling which overturns the preliminary objection,” but nothing official.”
Otto, Frank. The Mercury News 30 JUne 2014.