Bragg v. Weaver

In Bragg v. Weaver, 251 U.S. 57, 40 S.Ct. 62, 64 L.Ed. 135 (1919), a landowner sought to enjoin a taking pursuant to a state statute on the ground that no pre-taking hearing on compensation was provided. The Court rebuffed the attack stating, it is well settled by the decisions of this court that where adequate provision is made for the certain payment of the compensation without unreasonable delay the taking does not contravene due process of law in the sense of the Fourteenth Amendment merely because it precedes the ascertainment of what compensation is just. 251 U.S. at 62, 40 S.Ct. at 64.