UNITED STATES v. CERTAIN INTERESTS IN PROPERTY, ETC.

Nos. 12497, 12498.

271 F.2d 379 (1959)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee-Appellant, v. CERTAIN INTERESTS IN PROPERTY IN CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, State of Illinois, Chanute Gardens Corporation and Chanute Apartments Corporation, Defendants-Appellants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.

Rehearing Denied November 24, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. M. Raemer, U. S. Atty., Danville, Ill., Perry W. Morton, Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert D. McKnelly, Asst. U. S. Atty., Danville, Ill., Roger P. Marquis, Harold S. Harrison, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for the United States.

Samuel Goldstein, New York City, Joseph M. Williamson, Urbana, Ill., Samuel Goldstein & Sons, M. Robert Goldstein, Arthur D. Goldstein, Michael J. Goldstein, New York City, for defendants-appellants-appellees.

Before HASTINGS, Chief Judge, and PARKINSON and CASTLE, Circuit Judges.


HASTINGS, Chief Judge.

This action was brought by the United States to condemn defendants' interests in two so-called "Wherry"1 housing projects located on the Chanute Air Force Base at Rantoul, Illinois, subject to the interests of the mortgagees. The district court awarded $7,100,000 as just compensation. In No. 12497, defendants-appellants appeal from the sufficiency of the amount awarded, asserting errors in the measure of just compensation...

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