Justice v. United States

STEPHENS, Circuit Judge.

The jury fixed the sum of $500 for the taking of a right of way over farm land owned by Carl E. Justice and Beatrice Justice. The owners, feeling themselves aggrieved by the amount awarded, appeal and press two assignments of error.

The court refused appellants’ request that the jury be shown the land, and they cite §§ 906 to 920, inclusive, of Remington’s Revised Statutes of Washington, wherein the procedure for the condemnation of school sites is prescribed. Section 912, supra, provides, inter alia, that the jury shall be allowed to view the premises if all interested…