UNITED STATES v. LEWIS

Nos. 17437, 17452, 17394, 17395, 17501.

308 F.2d 453 (1962)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. Jesse A. S. LEWIS et al., 339.23 Acres of Land in Tulare County, California, Appellees. UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. Clemmie GILL et al., and 3,065.94 Acres of Land, More or Less, in Tulare County, California, Appellees. UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. A. R. BENNING et al., and 1,142.50 Acres of Land, More or Less, in Ventura County, California, Appellees. UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. Jack T. MORRISON, etc., et al., and 309.56 Acres of Land, More or Less, in Ventura County, California, Appellees. UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. V-R RANCH COMPANY, a corporation, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

July 10, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ramsey Clark, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lands Div., Washington, D. C., Roger P. Marquis, Elizabeth Dudley, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Francis C. Whelan, U. S. Atty., Albert Minton and Richard J. Dauber, Asst. U. S. Attys., Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant the United States in No. 17437.

Ramsey Clark, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lands Div., Roger P. Marquis, Elizabeth Dudley, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Albert Minton and John B. Read, Asst. U. S. Attys., Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant United States in Nos. 17394, 17395.

Ramsey Clark, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lands Div., Roger P. Marquis, Elizabeth Dudley, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Albert Minton and John B. Read, U. S. Attys., Los Angeles, Cal., S. Billingsly Hill, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellant United States in No. 17501.

Maddox, Abercrombie, Kloster & Jacobus, and Frederic A. Jacobus, Visalia, Cal., for appellees Lewis and others.

Burford, Hubler & Burford, and Burke E. Burford, Porterville, Cal., for appellees Gill and others.

Angell, Adams, Gochnauer & Elder, and Philip H. Angell, San Francisco, Cal., and Louis LeBaron, Honolulu, Hawaii, Price, Postel & Parma, and Robert M. Jones, Santa Barbara, Cal., and Mose Silverman, San Francisco, Cal., for the appellees Benning, Morrison & Battin.

Anson, Gleaves & Larson, and John B. Anson, and Milnor Gleaves, Los Angeles, Cal., for the appellee V-R Ranch Co.

Before HAMLEY, HAMLIN and MERRILL, Circuit Judges.


MERRILL, Circuit Judge.

In these five separate condemnation cases appeals taken by the United States raise substantially identical points. All cases were filed in the district court for the Southern District of California, Central Division, and before the same district judge. In each case the issue of just compensation was referred to a commission appointed pursuant to Rule 71A (h).1 In each case the same district judge reviewed the commission...

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