BANK OF EDENTON v. UNITED STATES

No. 5387.

152 F.2d 251 (1945)

BANK OF EDENTON et al. v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

November 5, 1945.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. C. B. Ehringhaus, of Raleigh, N C., and W. D. Pruden, of Edenton, N. C. (P. W. McMullan, of Elizabeth, N. C., on the brief), for appellants.

John C. Harrington, Attorney, Department of Justice, of Washington, D. C., and R. Brookes Peters, Jr., Sp. Asst. to U. S. Atty., of Wilmington, N. C. (J. Edward Williams, Acting Head, Lands Division, Department of Justice, of Washington, D. C., J. O. Carr, U. S. Attorney, of Wilmington, N. C., and Roger P. Marquis, Attorney, Department of Justice, of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellee.

Before SOPER, DOBIE and NORTHCOTT, Circuit Judges.


DOBIE, Circuit Judge.

The Bank of Edenton and others, as executors of Julien Wood, deceased, brought this appeal from the judgment of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of North Carolina in condemnation proceedings brought under the Second War Powers Act of March 27, 1942, 56 Stat. 177, c. 199, § 201, 50 U.S.C. A. Appendix, § 632. The land in question was one of 45 tracts taken by the Government for the construction of a Marine...

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