NATIONAL BRICK CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 8047.

131 F.2d 30 (1942)

NATIONAL BRICK CO. v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided October 26, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Edwin C. Dutton and Richard E. Wellford, both of Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Mr. John P. Hearne, of the Bar of the State of California, pro hac vice, by special leave of Court, with whom Norman M. Littell, Assistant Attorney General, and Messrs. Vernon L. Wilkinson and Alexander H. Bell, Jr., all of Washington, D. C., were on brief, for appellee. Messrs. Charles R. Denny, Jr. and Dwight H. Doty, both of Washington, D. C., entered appearances for the appellee.

Before GRONER, Chief Justice, and MILLER and VINSON, Associate Justices.


GRONER, C. J.

This is an appeal by a landowner in a condemnation proceeding instituted by the United States to acquire lands for the road development program of the National Capital Parks, Parkway and Playground System. The property involved consists of two and a half acres of a thirty-one acre tract of land adjoining the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad right of way in the District of Columbia. Appellant acquired the tract about thirty years ago and constructed on a...

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