UNITED STATES v. 576.734 ACRES OF LAND, ETC.

No. 8502.

143 F.2d 408 (1944)

UNITED STATES v. 576.734 ACRES OF LAND, MORE OR LESS, IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PA. HANKIN v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided March 22, 1944.

Rehearing Denied April 24, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Harrington, of Washington, D. C. (Norman M. Littell, Asst. Atty. Gen., Gerald A. Gleeson, U. S. Atty., of Philadelphia, Pa., C. James Todaro, Sp. Asst. to the Atty. Gen., and Vernon L. Wilkinson, Atty., Department of Justice, of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellant.

Joseph L. Prince, of Pottstown, Pa. (Moe Henry Hankin, of Abington, Pa., on the brief), for appellee.

Before MARIS, GOODRICH, and McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judges.


GOODRICH, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by the United States from a judgment of the District Court in favor of Moe Henry Hankin, the appellant alleging error in the admission of certain testimony and the exclusion of other testimony in the course of the trial.

The United States on March 23, 1942, filed a declaration of taking for a quantity of land in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, and judgment thereon was filed the same day. The land was taken for the...

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