U.S. v. 312.50 ACRES, PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, VA.

No. 86-2572.

812 F.2d 156 (1987)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. 312.50 ACRES OF LAND, MORE OR LESS, SITUATED IN PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA; Annie M. Davis, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided February 20, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maria Arevalo Iizuka, Dept. of Justice (F. Henry Habicht, II, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D.C., Henry Hudson, U.S. Atty., Joseph Fisher, Asst. U.S. Atty., Alexandria, Va., Aaron S. Bennett, Jacques B. Gelin, M. Kevin Voyles, Dept. of the Interior, Washington, D.C., on brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

Gary Alan Reese, Thomas G. Underwood, Manassas, Va., on brief, for defendants-appellees.

Before WINTER, Chief Judge, ERVIN, Circuit Judge, and KAUFMAN, Senior United States District Judge for the District of Maryland, sitting by designation.


HARRISON L. WINTER, Chief Judge:

The government takes this meritless appeal in this land condemnation case from the judgment entered on the jury's verdict awarding the landowners just compensation of approximately $4.2 million ($13,500 per acre for 312.50 acres of land). The sole contention on appeal is that the district court committed reversible error in admitting evidence of the sale of adjacent, comparable land under a fully executed, unconditional contract of...

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