Property Owner Challenge to Municipal Expropriation for Public Utility Rejected Due to Failure to Exhaust Administrative Remedies

A property owner appealed a lower court decision that upheld a municipal expropriation order for the purpose of constructing a public utility, arguing that the expropriation lacked a genuine public utility and amounted to a disguised private benefit, while the property owner had not exhausted administrative remedies before challenging the decree in administrative court. The high court rejected the appeal, reasoning that the administrative decree definitively established the reality and public nature of the utility, rendering the challenge to the underlying necessity inadmissible before the administrative jurisdiction, which retained exclusive jurisdiction over the legality of the expropriation act.