ASSATEAGUE ISLAND CONDEMNATION CASES OPINION NO. 3

Civ. Nos. 18283, 18585 and 19510.

324 F.Supp. 1170 (1971)

ASSATEAGUE ISLAND CONDEMNATION CASES OPINION NO. 3. 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.

March 25, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony C. Liotta, Philip M. Zeidner, Naneita A. Smith, and Stanley J. Fineman, Attys., Lands Division, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., and George Beall, U. S. Atty., Baltimore, Md., for plaintiff.

J. Hampton Baumgartner, Jr., Bruce S. Mencher and Wilkes & Artis, Washington, D. C., Raymond S. Smethurst, Jr. and Adkins, Potts & Smethurst, Salisbury, Md., Franklin Goldstein and Burke, Gerber & Wilen, Baltimore, Md., and Charles J. Sullivan, Jr., of College Park, Md., all for various lot owners.


THOMSEN, District Judge.

In these consolidated condemnation cases, the owners of 134 tracts, embracing over 300 lots in Section A of Ocean Beach, on Assateague Island (Assateague), have joined with the Government in submitting to the court without a jury the determination of just compensation for those tracts.

Assateague is 35 miles long and ranges between one-third of a mile and two miles in width, with 22 shoreline miles in Worcester County, Maryland, and...

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