UNITED STATES v. 15,909 ACRES

Civ. Nos. 1476, 1829-1834, 1879, 1850, 1851.

176 F.Supp. 447 (1958)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. 15,909 ACRES et al., Defendants. Vernon ASHCRAFT et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant. J. A. ASHCRAFT et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant. Orbie E. BROWNING et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant. William D. BROWNING, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant. Thomas Allan MATTHEWS et al., Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant. Wayne VOSS et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant. Anne CHANDLER, Jack Stanford et al., Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant. Alma Fox FULMER, Executrix of the Estate of Nannie Fox, deceased, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant. Horace N. SMITH and Amy J. Smith, husband and wife, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant.

United States District Court S. D. California, N. D.

November 25, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laughlin E. Waters, U. S. Atty., by Luther L. Jensen, Asst. U. S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff.

L. A. MacNicol, Merced, Cal., C. Ray Robinson, Merced, Cal., by Eugene A. Mash, San Francisco, Cal., for defendants.


YANKWICH, District Judge.

On September 24 and 25, 1958, a partial trial was had in the above group of cases. Evidence was heard as to certain of the issues with the understanding that their determination was necessary before evidence as to the value of the estates involved was heard. An exception was made in the case of owners of certain tracts who were allowed to testify as to value in order to avoid their return for the conclusion of the trial. The evidence and...

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