BARAS PLANTATION CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 49251.

105 F.Supp. 1003 (1952)

BARAS PLANTATION CO., Inc. v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

July 15, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Fairbanks, Washington, D. C., Fairbanks, Stafford & Fairbanks, Washington, D. C., on the brief, for plaintiff.

Thomas O. Fleming, Washington, D. C., Holmes Baldridge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lawrence Smith, Washington, D. C., on the brief, for defendant.

Before JONES, Chief Judge, and LITTLETON, WHITAKER, MADDEN and HOWELL, Judges.


JONES, Chief Judge.

The single substantial issue in this case is the value at the time of taking of 1,349 coconut-bearing palm trees which were cut down or removed from the Baras Plantation during the late spring and summer of 1945. They were cut or removed by the armed forces for making or improving roads, for use as posts for telephone or electric wiring, for bridges, a pier, foundations, buildings and other military purposes, including the expansion and improvement...

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