HALPERT v. UDALL

No. 614-62-Civil-EC.

231 F.Supp. 574 (1964)

Samuel C. HALPERT, a single man, Harold A. Miller and Grace B. Miller, his wife, and Eugene B. McDonough and Lillian McDonough, his wife, Plaintiffs, v. Stewart L. UDALL, individually and as Secretary of the Interior of the United States of America, Defendant.

United States District Court S. D. Florida, Miami Division.

July 10, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leo M. Alpert, Miami, Fla., for plaintiff.

William A. Meadows, Jr., U. S. Atty., Miami, Fla., and Herbert Pittle, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for the Government.

Before JONES, Circuit Judge, and DYER and CHOATE, District Judges.


JONES, Circuit Judge:

The plaintiffs are the owners of a two-hundred-acre tract of land in Dade County, Florida, which they acquired in 1956.

In 1929 the Congress authorized the Secretary of the Interior to investigate the desirability and practicability of establishing a national park in the Everglades of Florida. 45 Stat. 1443. In the same year the Florida Legislature created an Everglades National Park Commission to acquire title to lands and transfer land...

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