LaFontaine's Heirs v. LaFontaine's Heirs

Annie N. LaFontaine, a resident of the District of Columbia, owned some twenty acres of land in Prince George’s County. In 1950, the State Roads Commission, having determined that some two acres of the land were needed for highway construction and being unable to agree with Mrs., LaFontaine as to value, proceeded as authorized by the Constitution, Article 3, Sec. 40B, and the statute, Code (1951), Art. 89B, Sec. 9, by depositing with the clerk of the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County a check for $13,770.00, which it estimated,to be: “* * * the fair value of the land and improvements…