United States v. Sixty Acres, More or Less, of Land in Williamson County

WHAM, District Judge.

These are condemnation suits now before the court upon the motions of certain defendant landowners and next of kin of persons buried on the land to dismiss the petitions for condemnation. The suits have been brought by the United States of America in connection with the program being carried out by the Department of Agriculture under the authority of Title 2 of the National Industrial Recovery Act, 48 Stat. 200 et seq., 40 U.S.C.A. § 401 et seq. and various Executive Orders thereunder. Directly involved here is the so-called Crab Orchard Creek Project which involves the…