Legal Opinion
United States v. 93.970 Acres of Land
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 22, 1959No. 573PublishedCited by 72 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Black
The basic question presented in this case is whether the United States can have adjudicated under one complaint (1) the claim by a third person of a valuable possessory interest in government property and (2) condemnation and value of that interest, if any. In 1947 the United States leased an airfield to respondent Illinois Aircraft Services & Sales Co. The preamble to the lease stated that because of the strategic value of the field the Government considered it essential to retain it “in a stand-by status for post-war use in connection with Naval Aviation activities . . . One paragraph of…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n v. ParnellSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
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3Cited by72 opinions
- United States v. Little Lake Misere Land Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Best v. Humboldt Placer Mining Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Ford v. Guarantee Abstract & Title Co.Supreme Court of Kansas · 1976
- Wheeler v. BarreraSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- George C. Hibma v. Richard T. Odegaard, James Nikodem, and Michael Paul Szula, and Sawyer County, Wisconsin, InterveningCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1985
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