BOYD v. UNITED STATES

No. 15108.

222 F.2d 493 (1955)

R. E. BOYD and Odessa Boyd, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

May 11, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert C. Downie and Wm. M. Moorhead, Little Rock, Ark., submitted brief for appellants.

Reginald W. Barnes, Attorney, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Perry W. Morton, Asst. Atty. Gen., Osro Cobb, U. S. Atty., Little Rock, Ark., and John F. Cotter and George S. Swarth, Attorneys, Department of Justice, Washigton, D. C., on the brief), for appellee.

Before SANBORN, WOODROUGH and JOHNSEN, Circuit Judges.


JOHNSEN, Circuit Judge.

The Government condemned, as part of the site for an air base, 15.7 acres of appellants' 82-acre farm in Pulaski County, Arkansas, leaving appellants with their residence, outbuildings and 66.3 acres of land remaining. On a trial without a jury, the District Court awarded them compensation of $1375, and they have appealed from the basis and amount of the court's award.

In substance, their contention for reversal is that they were allowed...

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