UNITED STATES v. 397.51 ACRES OF LAND, ETC.

Nos. 80-2156, 81-1298.

692 F.2d 688 (1982)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. 397.51 ACRES OF LAND, MORE OR LESS, SITUATE IN COTTON, JEFFERSON AND STEPHENS COUNTIES, STATE OF OKLAHOMA, et al., Defendants, and Tab Dowlen and Helen Dowlen, his wife, Defendants-Appellants, and Faye Norton and Pauline Duncan, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

October 29, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Pacheco, Washington, D.C. (Carol E. Dinkins, Asst. Atty. Gen., Larry D. Patton, U.S. Atty., John E. Green, Asst. U.S. Atty., Oklahoma City, Okl., and Jacques B. Gelin and Laura Frossard, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., with him on the brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

John W. Norman, Oklahoma City, Okl., for defendants-appellants.

James Robinson, Oklahoma City, Okl. (Jay D. Jones, Duncan, Okl., and Monnet, Hayes, Bullis, Thompson & Edwards, Oklahoma City, Okl., with him on the brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before BARRETT, SEYMOUR and BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judges.


BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judge.

This federal condemnation suit has produced a maze of procedural and substantive complications which defy simple analysis. No. 80-2156 is an appeal by Tab and Helen Dowlen, husband and wife, from a district court judgment dividing the compensation award. No. 81-1298 is an appeal by the Dowlens essentially raising the question of the interest payable on the compensation award. The appeals are interconnected. After a statement of the general...

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