UNITED STATES v. 416.81 ACRES OF LAND

Nos. 74-1307, 74-1308.

525 F.2d 450 (1975)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. 416.81 ACRES OF LAND, etc., and Mercantile National Bank of Indiana, as Trustee, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 28, 1975.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied July 21, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Owen W. Crumpacker, Hammond, Ind., Wayland B. Cedarquist, Chicago, Ill., Malcolm E. Anderson, Chesterton, Ind., for defendants-appellants.

John R. Wilks, U. S. Atty., Fort Wayne, Ind., Richard L. Kieser, Asst. U. S. Atty., South Bend, Ind., and Wallace H. Johnson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert L. Klarquist, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before CLARK, Associate Justice, CUMMINGS and TONE, Circuit Judges.


Mr. Justice CLARK.

These appeals, companion to No. 73-2104 decided this day, concern the condemnation of two tracts of land owned by members of the Crumpacker family within the area of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Three of the issues in No. 73-2104 are identical to ones raised here and our affirmance in that case controls the disposition here: (1) the propriety of the district court's striking of the landowners' defenses; (2) the propriety of the district...

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