UNITED STATES v. 2.4 ACRES OF LAND, MORE OR LESS, ETC.

No. 8178.

138 F.2d 295 (1943)

UNITED STATES v. 2.4 ACRES OF LAND, MORE OR LESS, IN LAKE COUNTY, ILL., et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

October 26, 1943.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman M. Littell and Dwight Doty, Asst. Attys. Gen., Vernon L. Wilkinson, Atty., Lands Division, of Washington, D. C., and J. Albert Woll and Clarence W. Beatty, Jr., both of Chicago, Ill., for appellant.

Paul C. Behanna, of Highland Park, Ill., and William S. Jacob, both of Chicago, Ill., for appellees.

Before KERNER and MINTON, Circuit Judges, and LINDLEY, District Judge.


KERNER, Circuit Judge.

Appellant appeals from a judgment awarding damages in a condemnation suit tried by a jury, instituted by the United States,1 to condemn certain lands for the purpose of establishing a recreational center for soldiers stationed at Fort Sheridan, adjacent to the Fort in Lake County, Illinois. The jury returned a verdict of $29,000, apportioned as follows: to Ethel Johnson, $7,500; to J. L. Bullivant for his leasehold...

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