23 TRACTS OF LAND v. UNITED STATES

No. 10849.

177 F.2d 967 (1949)

23 TRACTS OF LAND, Etc. v. UNITED STATES

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

December 2, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. L. Towell, Cleveland, Ohio and Henry B. Critchfield, Wooster, Ohio (Squire Sanders & Dempsey, L. L. Towell, Cleveland, Ohio, Critchfield, Critchfield & Critchfield, Henry Critchfield, Wooster, Ohio, on the brief), for appellant.

Wilma C. Martin, Washington, D. C. (A. Devitt Vanech, Washington, D. C., A. F. O'Neil, Cleveland, Ohio, John F. Cotter, Wilma C. Martin, Washington D. C., on the brief), for appellee.

Before SIMONS, ALLEN and MILLER, Circuit Judges.


MILLER, Circuit Judge.

These proceedings were instituted in the District Court by the United States to condemn perpetual easement to flood 23 tracts of land in connection with the construction and maintenance of certain dams and reservoirs in the Muskingum River Valley as part of a flood control project for the Ohio River Basin. The appellant, C. A. Basquin, who was a lessee of one of the tracts involved with an oral option to purchase, filed an answer claiming the...

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