United States v. Des Moines County

SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

The question for decision is whether the United States, in condemning, for military purposes, public roads within the area of the Iowa Ordnance Plant, in Des Moines County, l'owa, is obliged to pay the appellees as just compensation (1) the value of the roads taken, or (2) the cost of providing necessary substitute roads, or (3) nominal damages.

The District Court, after the trial of the issue of just compensation or damages in this proceeding to condemn the roads, found as a fact: “That the full, fair, reasonable and actual value of the roads and highways * * * on the…