Bruce family settlement paid a fraction of their claim after years of litigation delay

Evidence

City officials said that they needed it for a park—a park that was not built for almost thirty years. The Bruces did not take the city’s eminent domain assault lying down. They sued and asked for 120,000 in compensation. But the legal case dragged on for five years, and finally they had no choice but to agree to a ridiculously low settlement of 14,500 in 1929. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 347

Categorization

• XREF: The gap between the 120,000 ask and 14,500 settlement plus the never-built park foreshadows the accounting frame Brown builds toward.