United States v. Certain Parcels of Land in the County of Arlington, State of Virginia, and Howard W. Silsby

PAUL, District Judge.

This is an appeal by the United States from a judgment for $324,000.00 entered against it as the result of a jury verdict fixing that amount as compensation to be paid for a tract of land taken by condemnation for construction of the George Washington Memorial Parkway.

The property in question, which was owned by the Smoot Sand & Gravel Corporation, consists of a strip of land along the Virginia side of the Potomac River and opposite to or slightly upstream from the city of Washington, D. C. For purpose of description it will be taken that the river runs in a north-south…