WOODLANDS CEMETERY CO. v. UNITED STATES

Civ. No. 8449.

110 F.Supp. 704 (1953)

WOODLANDS CEMETERY CO. v. UNITED STATES.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

March 4, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bertram G. Frazier, B. Graeme Frazier, Jr., and Philip Price (of Barnes, Dechert, Price, Myers & Rhoads), Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

Gerald A. Gleeson, U. S. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., C. James Todaro, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., Robert R. MacLeod, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendant.


FOLLMER, District Judge.

Defendant, the United States of America, filed a motion for a new trial following a jury verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of $580,000. Plaintiff, the Woodlands Cemetery Company, was the owner of 14.7841 acres, or approximately 643,995 square feet, of land situated at the southwest corner of Woodland and University Avenues in the City of Philadelphia. This land was acquired by condemnation proceedings by the United States of America for...

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