UNITED STATES v. CITY OF NEW YORK

Nos. 94, 95, 109-111, 120, 127-131, Dockets 21807, 21808, 21824-21826, 21836, 21865, 21867, 21871, 21872, 21875.

186 F.2d 418 (1951)

UNITED STATES v. CITY OF NEW YORK (and ten other cases).

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided January 9, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry T. Dolan, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., and S. Billingsley Hill, Atty., Dept. of Justice, of Washington, D. C. (A. Devitt Vanech, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Roger P. Marquis, Atty., Dept. of Justice, of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for the United States.

Benjamin Offner, of New York City (John P. McGrath, Corp. Counsel, Harry E. O'Donnell, Bernard H. Friedman, and Philip L. Wellens, all of New York City, on the brief), for defendant-appellant-appellee City of New York.

Henry Herz, of New York City (Parsons, Closson & McIlvaine, Charles P. Kramer, and William M. Sperry, 2d, all of New York City, on the brief), for defendant-appellant-appellee Brooklyn Eastern Dist. Terminal.

Bernard L. Bermant, of New York City (Skinner & Bermant and George Bergen, all of New York City, on the brief), for defendants-appellees Kings County Refrigerating Co., Anne E. Dannemiller, James T. McDonald, and Edward J. McDonald, individually and as executors, etc., and Bortolo Bendin, Inc.

Walter Bruchhausen, of New York City (Duncan & Bruchhausen, of New York City, on the brief), for defendant-appellee Anna D. Sagemann.

Nathan L. Goldstein, of New York City (Mario L. Clinco, of New York City, on the brief), for defendant-appellee Sclafani Bros., Inc.

Ira I. Gluckstein, of New York City, for defendants-appellees Arthur Boeckmann and Clara Martin, executors of estate of Anna C. Boeckmann, deceased.

Alfred J. L'Heureux, of New York City (Morgan, Lockwood & L'Heureux, Peter X. McManus, and David Drescher, all of New York City, on the brief), for defendants-appellees City Bank Farmers Trust Co., as trustee of estate of William Kornblum, deceased, and Alice Kornblum et al., executors of estate of Abraham Kornblum, deceased.

Clyde Brown, Jr., of New York City (C. Austin White, of New York City, on the brief), for defendant-appellee New York Cent. R. Co.

Before AUGUSTUS N. HAND, CLARK, and FRANK, Circuit Judges.


CLARK, Circuit Judge.

This is another and, it is to be hoped, the final chapter in the lengthy litigation involving the condemnation by the United States of New York City's "Wallabout Market" for expansion of the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1941. References to the earlier stages of the litigation are set forth in the last case before us, United States v. 53¼ Acres of Land, etc., 2 Cir., 176 F.2d 255, out of which the present case arises...

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