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MITCHELL v. UNITED STATES

No. 176.

267 U.S. 341 (1925)

MITCHELL ET AL. v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 2, 1925.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Horace S. Whitman and Mr. William L. Marbury, with whom Mr. Robert H. Archer and Mr. Robert H. Archer Jr. were on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Alfred A. Wheat, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Mr. Solicitor General Beck and Mr. Randolph S. Collins were on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the Court.

Pursuant to the Act of October 6, 1917, c. 79, 40 Stat. 345, 352, the President declared that the large tract of land in Maryland now known as the Aberdeen Proving Ground was needed for that military purpose. Proclamations, October 16, 1917 and December 14, 1917, 40 Stat. 1707, 1731. The land was thereafter acquired under that Act from the several owners either by purchase...

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