Gillis v. Curd

HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.

Appellants appeal from a decree denying them $1,740 or any part thereof, proceeds of a tract of land condemned by the United States for inclusion in the Cumberland National Forest.

In 1934, appellee, T. J. Curd, optioned to the United States, for $6 per acre, 354 acres of land in Whitley and McCreary Counties, Kentucky. The option was exercised and the land surveyed in two tracts, referred to in the record as tract 1408d, containing 303-acres, and tract 1408d-l, containing 51 acres. The latter tract is not in controversy.

Appellants claimed title to the lands, which were…