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UNITED STATES EX REL. T. V. A. v. 137 ACRES OF LAND, ETC.

No. 18410.

406 F.2d 1283 (1969)

UNITED STATES of America upon the relation and for the Use of the TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. 137 ACRES OF LAND, MORE OR LESS, IN MARION COUNTY, TENNESSEE, Hunley W. Acuff, et ux., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

February 21, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard G. Swafford, Jasper, Tenn., for appellants, Raulston & Swafford, Jasper, Tenn., on the brief.

Thomas A. Pedersen, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Knoxville, Tenn., for appellee, Robert H. Marquis, Gen. Counsel, James H. Eldridge, Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, Tenn., on the brief.

Before WEICK, Chief Judge, and PHILLIPS and PECK, Circuit Judges.

WEICK, Chief Judge.

This appeal is by the landowner defendants in a condemnation action instituted in the District Court by Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in the name of the United States of America. They complain of an award of $34,000, made by the District Court for their 137-acre farm, which award they assert was grossly inadequate.

The complaint was filed in the District Court by TVA on August 4, 1966, to condemn the farm for "the construction, operation...

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