Legal Opinion
Baetjer v. United States
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 26, 1944No. 3933PublishedCited by 121 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOODBURY, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court of the United States for Puerto Rico awarding the appellants, who are the trustees of Eastern Sugar Associates, a trust, $361,500 as compensation for two tracts of land on the island of Vieques 1 condemned and taken possession of by the United States for war purposes under 40 U.S.C.A. § 258a.
The land condemned consists of two non-contiguous parcels, denominated in the petition as “A” and “B”, aggregating 7,-936.6 acres. Parcel “B”, known as “Cabeza del Este”, consisting of about 1700 acres, constitutes the eastern…
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3Cited by121 opinions
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