UNITED STATES v. 222.0 ACRES OF LAND, ETC., STATE OF MARYLAND

Civ. Nos. 19510, 19884.

306 F.Supp. 138 (1969)

ASSATEAGUE ISLAND CONDEMNATION CASES OPINION NO. 1. UNITED STATES of America v. 222.0 ACRES OF LAND, MORE OR LESS, IN the COUNTY OF WORCESTER, STATE OF MARYLAND, R. C. L. Moncure, Executor of the Estate of Charles H. Grogan, Deceased, et al.

United States District Court D. Maryland.

November 6, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony C. Liotta, Philip M. Zeidner and Naneita A. Smith, Attys., Lands Division, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., and Stephen H. Sachs, U. S. Atty., and Jean G. Rogers, Asst. U. S. Atty., Baltimore, Md., for plaintiff.

Franklin Goldstein, Arnold Michael Weiner and Burke, Gerber & Wilen, Baltimore, Md., and J. Hampton Baumgartner, Jr., Bruce S. Mencher and Wilkes & Artis, Washington, D. C., for Trustees of the Liquidation Trust for former members and stockholders of Ocean Beach Club, Inc., and for Assateague Island Bridge Corp.

Raymond S. Smethurst, Jr., Salisbury, Md., for Assateague Island Realty Corp. Louis Friedman and Miles & Friedman, Baltimore, Md., for Ocean Beach, Inc., and South Ocean Beach, Inc.


THOMSEN, Chief Judge.

Assateague Island, a long, thin strip of land off the eastern shore of Maryland and Virginia, has the Atlantic Ocean on the east and the Sinepuxent and Chincoteague Bays on the west. The northern part of the Island is in Worcester County, Maryland, the southern part in Accomack County, Virginia.

In 1965 Congress decided to acquire Assateague Island for a National Seashore. P.L. 89-195, 79 Stat. 824, 16 U.S. C.A. § 459f et seq. The...

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