UNITED STATES v. CERTAIN REAL ESTATE, ETC.

No. 12081.

217 F.2d 920 (1954)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. CERTAIN REAL ESTATE LYING ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF BROAD STREET Between Eighth Avenue, South, and Ninth Avenue, South, and Certain Property Situate on the Eastern Side of Ninth Avenue, South, Between Broadway and McGavock Streets, in the CITY OF NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE: and D. A. Puckette, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

December 10, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edmund Clark, Washington, D. C., Perry W. Morton, Asst. Atty. Gen., Roger P. Marquis, Washington, D. C., Fred Elledge, Jr., Nashville, Tenn., on brief, for appellant.

Tom Stewart, W. B. Pendleton, Nashville, Tenn., W. B. Pendleton, Lewis S. Pope, Nashville, Tenn., on brief, for appellees.

Before MARTIN, McALLISTER and MILLER, Circuit Judges.


MARTIN, Circuit Judge.

The United States, through the District Attorney for Middle Tennessee and upon request of the Administrator of the Federal Works Agency, filed on January 2, 1947, a petition for the condemnation of certain downtown real estate in Nashville, Tennessee, "for use as a Federal Office Building." Included in the lands sought to be condemned was Tract 14, owned by the appellees, D. A. Puckette, et al. The petition was filed, so it stated, pursuant...

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