The article analyzes the course of the expropriation of agricultural land in the village next to the big city, realized in 2009 upon a Governor's decision of locating a toll motorway - from year 2003. In the broader context it presents a legal framework, decisions and actions of public administrations and their implications for spatial destinations made to carry out a public task. It points at the possibilities of expropriation proceeding under article No 64 of Polish Constitution. It's background is actual value of object of expropriation and the particular case of way of law functioning in Poland, especially in the context of administrative correctness, period of issuing decision, valuation of property and deprivation an expropriated person the income source. ...