United States v. 88.28 Acres of Land, More or Less, Situated in Porter County, State of Indiana, Appeal of Mary W. Crumpacker

PELL, Circuit Judge.

On October 10, 1970, the plaintiff-appel-lee, the United States of America, filed a complaint in condemnation to acquire land for the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Although the complaint encompassed several tracts of land, see Fed.R.Civ.P. 71A(b), this appeal concerns only the tract numbered 02-128, a parcel of some 80 acres. Included among those named as defendants in the complaint were the numerous Crum-packers 1 and Edward Warner and his wife. The Crumpackers were denominated in the complaint as “purported owners,” the War-ners as “other parties who may have or…