"Any private person, firm or corporation shall have power to exercise the right of eminent domain in like manner as railroad companies for private ways of necessity." {10 The parties accurately describe in their appellate briefs the lack of extensive authority interpreting the private condemnation statute. Nonetheless, there is ample authority interpreting the manner in which railroad companies may condemn private property. See 66 0.8.2001 §§ 51-66. Title 66 0.8.2001 § 56 provides for an appeal from the district court regarding decisions on objections to the report of the commissioners, and decisions interpreting that statute hold that a landowner is entitled to a judicial determination of the right to take prior to determination of the amount of just compensation. See Wybrant (<HOLDING>). See also Blankenship v. Bone, 1974 OK CIV APP
recognizing an appellate court may affirm a trial courts decision that reached the right result regardless of the trial courts reasoning holding that such a decision was within the trial courts discretion holding that the right to appeal a trial courts taking decision provided in section 56 adequately protected the landowners rights holding that the supreme courts proper scope of review of a trial courts decision in a trial de novo of an assessment matter is whether the decision of the trial court was clearly erroneous holding in an inverse condemnation case that the abutting landowners right of direct access was subservient to the city of portlands proper exercise of its governmental powers for purposes of public safety and convenience and that the elimination of access from the landowners property to the affected street did not constitute a taking