UNITED STATES v. 3,317.39 ACRES, ETC., JEFFERSON CO., ARK.

No. 20467.

443 F.2d 104 (1971)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. 3,317.39 ACRES OF LAND, MORE OR LESS, IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, ARKANSAS, and Earl Moore et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 16, 1971.

Rehearing Denied July 16, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jacques B. Gelin, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Shiro Kashiwa, Asst. Atty. Gen., W. H. Dillahunty, U. S. Atty., James G. Mixon, Asst. U. S. Atty., Little Rock, Ark., S. Billingsley Hill, Anthony R. Sluga, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

James T. Gooch, J. Hugh Lookadoo, Jr., Lookadoo, Gooch & Lookadoo, Arkadelphia, Ark., for appellees.

Before MEHAFFY and HEANEY, Circuit Judges, and MEREDITH, Chief District Judge.


Rehearing En Banc Denied July 16, 1971.

MEREDITH, Chief District Judge.

This is an appeal by the Government from a judgment in a condemnation proceeding tried before a jury. The jury awarded the landowners $976,071 as just compensation. The Government by its declaration of taking took title in fee to 13.06 acres and flowage easements of 1,947.13 acres out of a tract of land of approximately 10,000 acres, in connection with the construction of Lock and Dam...

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