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CADORETTE v. U.S.

No. 92-1181.

988 F.2d 215 (1993)

Albert J. CADORETTE, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 22, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jacques B. Gelin, Attorney, Dept. of Justice, with whom Barry M. Hartman, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, DC, A. John Pappalardo, U.S. Atty., George B. Henderson, II, Asst. U.S. Atty., Boston, MA and David C. Shilton, Attorney, Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, were on brief, for U.S.

John D. Hallisey, Orleans, MA, for appellee Jean Stevenson Clark.

Arthur C. Croce, Wellfleet, MA, for appellees Roger Treat Jackson, Jr., Margery Jackson Chambers, Barbara Jackson Allgeier, and Betsey Jackson Patterson.

Before BREYER, Chief Judge, CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge, and TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

BREYER, Chief Judge.

In 1972 the United States bought eight acres of land in Truro, Massachusetts, to add to the Cape Cod National Seashore. Unfortunately, the seller, Elizabeth Freeman, owned only a small percentage share of the eight acres that she purported to convey. Elizabeth's long-lived great-grandfather, Edmund Freeman, (whom we shall call "Edmund the Elder") had owned 100% of the eight acres when he died in 1870, but, after his death, the property descended...

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