UNITED STATES v. 161.99 ACRES OF LAND, COLLIN CTY., TEX.

No. 74-3245. Summary Calendar.

512 F.2d 65 (1975)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. 161.99 ACRES OF LAND, MORE OR LESS, situated IN COLLIN COUNTY, TEXAS, et al., etc., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 28, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roland Boyd, McKinney, Tex., for defendants-appellants.

Roby Hadden, U. S. Atty., Nancy L. James, Asst. U. S. Atty., Tyler, Tex., Wallace H. Johnson, Edmund B. Clark, Dirk D. Snel, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before THORNBERRY, MORGAN and RONEY, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

The sole question presented on this appeal from a land condemnation award is the valuation date. The property owner appellants argue for a date-of-trial value which had apparently doubled in the three years since the time of taking. The law is well established, however, that the landowner is entitled only to the value of the land at the time of taking. We affirm the district court's decision on this point.

The appellants are three former landowners...

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