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UNITED STATES v. 158.76 ACRES OF LAND, ETC.

No. 103, Docket 26954.

298 F.2d 559 (1962)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. 158.76 ACRES OF LAND, MORE OR LESS, SITUATE IN the TOWN OF TOWNSHEND, WINDHAM COUNTY, State of VERMONT, and Janet Hoadley Jacques, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided January 19, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ramsey Clark, Asst. Atty. Gen., Joseph F. Radigan, U. S. Atty., Rutland, Vt., Raymond N. Zagone and Roger P. Marquis, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Ralph Chapman and A. Luke Crispe, Brattleboro, Vt., for appellee.

Before SWAN, WATERMAN and FRIENDLY, Circuit Judges.

SWAN, Circuit Judge.

This condemnation action was brought by the United States to acquire title to land for flood control purposes in connection with the establishment of the Townshend Dam and Reservoir Project in the West River Basin of the Connecticut River, Vermont.1 It was tried to a jury whose verdict awarded to Mrs. Jacques, the claimant, $53,000, a sum of $26,000 more than the estimated just compensation for her property deposited...

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