United States v. 67.59 Acres of Land, more or less, Situate in Huntingdon County

MEMORANDUM

HERMAN, District Judge.

This is a land condemnation case involving 67.59 acres of land situated in Hunting-don County, Pennsylvania, which the United States Government acquired from the Condemnees, Daniel C. Morningstar and his wife, Martha Morningstar, for part of the Government’s Raystown Lake Project. The case was tried before a jury, and on September 28,1977, the jury returned a verdict in the amount of $60,500. The Condemnees filed a timely motion for a new trial raising as grounds therefore the following alleged trial errors: (1) that the verdict was in the exact amount…