UNITED STATES v. PENNSYLVANIA-DIXIE CEMENT CORP.

No. 10836.

178 F.2d 195 (1949)

UNITED STATES v. PENNSYLVANIA-DIXIE CEMENT CORPORATION.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

December 8, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold S. Harrison, Washington, D. C. (A Devitt Vanech, John F. Cotter, Harold S. Harrison, Washington D. C., Otto T. Ault, Chattanooga, Tenn., on the brief), for appellant.

Charles C. Moore, Chattanooga, Tenn. (Charles C. Moore, Chattanooga, Tenn., on the brief), for appellee.

Before HICKS, Chief Judge, and SIMONS and MARTIN, Circuit Judges.


MARTIN, Circuit Judge.

On an unusual factual situation, the issue here is whether the district court adopted a lawfully justifiable method of measuring just compensation for the taking by eminent domain of the interest of the appellee corporation in a tract of land in Sullivan County, Tennessee. On June 24, 1940, the appellee entered into a contract in writing with Brick Realty Corporation, owner in fee of the land subsequently condemned by the United States, by virtue...

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