United States v. Knickerbocker Printing Corp.

Defendant’s appeal from an asserted inadequate award in condemnation proceedings is based upon the failure of the commissioners and the district judge to make it an allowance for trade fixtures installed in the building of which it was tenant under a twenty-one year lease. This eleven-story structure was a specialty building erected in 1905 to serve the printing and book binding industry; and there had been placed in it costly and expensive heavy machines with special installation such as wiring connections and the foundations. Defendant removed such of these as were removable before delivery…