Highsmith v. Southwestern Medical Foundation

ATWELL, Chief Judge.

The plaintiff seeks to restrain the defendant from transferring .32 of an acre of land which had been condemned by the United States, under the authority of Congress.

The plaintiff claims that the land was so condemned and paid for, upon a valuation and proceeding had in this court, wherein a jury fixed the plaintiff’s recovery at $8,000, for which he paid $387. That the taking by the United States of the .32 of an acre, plus 18 acres adjoining it, owned by others, was for the purpose of constructing a Veterans’ hospital thereon.

The facts developed in the testimony,…