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ST. JOE PAPER CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 11528.

155 F.2d 93 (1946)

ST. JOE PAPER CO. et al. v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 11, 1946.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. W. Harrell, of Jacksonville, Fla., Weldon G. Starry, of Tallahassee, Fla., and James H. Finch, of Marianna, Fla., for appellants.

George Earl Hoffman, U. S. Atty., of Pensacola, Fla., and J. Edward Williams, Acting Head, Lands Division, Dept. of Justice, and Dwight D. Doty and Roger P. Marquis, Attys., Dept. of Justice, all of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before SIBLEY, WALLER, and LEE, Circuit Judges.

LEE, Circuit Judge.

On May 8, 1941, the Secretary of War under authority of congressional acts,1 by filing a declaration of taking, condemned to public use 28, 517.65 acres of land in Bay County, Florida, for the establishment of an Air Corps Flexible Gunnery School near Panama City, to be known as Tyndall Field. Appellants owned 23,357.95 acres of the total acreage condemned. The St. Joe Paper Company owned 11,954.39 acres; H. H. Wells...

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