WASHINGTON METRO. AREA T.A. v. ONE PARCEL OF LAND

No. 82-1166.

706 F.2d 1312 (1983)

WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA TRANSIT AUTHORITY, a body corporate, Appellee, v. ONE PARCEL OF LAND In MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND, et al., and Unknown Owners, (parcel MA 408) and F.O. Day Company, Defendants, and Virginia Casey Visnich, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 4, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Clapp, Rockville, Md. (R. Edwin Brown, Brown & Sturm, Rockville, Md., on brief) and Warren Browning, for appellant.

J. Carol Williams, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C. (Carol E. Dinkins, Asst. Atty. Gen., Raymond N. Zagone, Robert L. Klarquist, Robert H. Plotkin, Washington, D.C., on brief), for appellee.

Before WINTER, Chief Judge, WIDENER, Circuit Judge, and BRYAN, Senior Circuit Judge.


HARRISON L. WINTER, Chief Judge:

Virginia Casey Visnich appeals from the judgment of the district court ruling that the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority ("WMATA") acted properly in condemning her property under the Declaration of Taking Act, 40 U.S.C. § 258a, and setting an award of interest on the amount of just compensation. We conclude that WMATA properly exercised condemnation powers delegated to it...

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