PARADISE PRAIRIE LAND CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 14433.

212 F.2d 170 (1954)

PARADISE PRAIRIE LAND CO. et al. v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 15, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. F. P. Brigham, W. W. Colson, Jr., and Phillip Goldman, Miami, Fla., for appellants.

Roger P. Marquis, Elizabeth Dudley, Attys. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., J. Edward Williams, Act. Asst. Atty. Gen., William D. Jones, Jr., Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Perpy W. Morton, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before STRUM and RIVES, Circuit Judges, and DAWKINS, District Judge.


STRUM, Circuit Judge.

This proceeding in eminent domain was instituted by the United States to acquire a large area of land in South Florida to be developed into Everglades National Park. Appellants, the owners of certain of said lands in Townships 59 and 60 South, Range 35 East, are complaining that the judgment below denied them just compensation.

The trial was held in two stages, the first to ascertain the map or plat by which the lands should be identified...

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