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OLIVER v. UNITED STATES

No. 13309.

156 F.2d 281 (1946)

OLIVER et al. v. UNITED STATES et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

June 24, 1946.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Igoe, Carroll, Keefe & Coburn, Richmond C. Coburn, and Thomas L. Croft, all of St. Louis, Mo., and Robert V. Niedner, of St. Charles, Mo., for appellants.

Adams, Adams & Adams and Arthur N. Adams, Sr., all of Kansas City, Mo., and Cobbs, Logan, Roos & Armstrong, Wm. H. Armstrong, and J. Terrell Vaughan, all of St. Louis, Mo., for appellee Kansas City Title Ins. Co.

J. Edward Williams, Acting Head, Lands Division, of Washington, D.C., and Harry C. Blanton, U. S. Atty., of Sikeston, Mo., and Roger P. Marquis and Miss Wilma C. Martin, Attys., Department of Justice, both of Washington, D. C., for appellee United States.

Before SANBORN, WOODROUGH, and RIDDICK, Circuit Judges.

RIDDICK, Circuit Judge.

This is one of the so-called Weldon Springs cases which arose out of the efforts of the War Department to acquire by purchase a site in St. Charles County, Missouri, for the location of an ordnance plant. After having accepted approximately 270 contracts with individual landowners for the purchase of their lands, the War Department conceived the idea that the contracts were prohibited by statute, and acting upon this assumption caused condemnation...

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