BASTIAN v. UNITED STATES

No. 8433.

118 F.2d 777 (1941)

BASTIAN et al. v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

As Corrected April 18, 1941.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred L. Hoffman, of Cincinnati, Ohio, for appellants.

Frederic W. Johnson, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Charles Denny, of Washington, D. C. (Norman M. Littell, Charles R. Denny, Edward J. Hickey, and Roger P. Marquis, all of Washington, D. C., and Frederic W. Johnson, of Cincinnati, Ohio, on the brief), for appellee.

Before HICKS, ALLEN, and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges.


HICKS, Circuit Judge.

The parties will be referred to as they stood upon the record in the District Court.

The decree appealed from was for specific performance of a contract by which defendants agreed to sell plaintiff certain lands needed for the completion of the Greenhills Resettlement Project. The plaintiff entered into the contract upon the authority of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of April 8, 1935, ch. 48, 49 Stat. 115.

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