The City of Longueuil negotiated to purchase the appellant's land and accepted an offer of sale for $500,000.
Knowing the appellant could not deliver clear title due to pending litigation, the City expropriated the land instead of executing the sale.
The Expropriation Tribunal awarded $1,714,936 plus an additional indemnity, finding no binding agreement on the expropriation indemnity.
The Court of Appeal reversed, holding the $500,000 agreement bound the parties.
The Supreme Court of Canada allowed the appeal, restoring the Tribunal's finding that no transaction or agreement governed the expropriation indemnity, but modified the additional indemnity calculation to deduct the provisional indemnity already paid.
