Legal Opinion
A. C. Brown and Neva Brown v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 23, 1955No. 15259-15261_1PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHNSEN, Circuit Judge.
The Government condemned three tracts of land, owned by appellants, in the State of Missouri, for inclusion in the Bull Shoals Dam reservoir area. The tracts were made the subject of separate suits, with the three cases being consolidated for trial below, and also for hearing here.
The jury awarded appellants compensation for the tracts respectively of $3000, $3200 and $650. The court entered an order granting the Government’s motion for a new trial in each case, unless appellants filed remittiturs of $965, $1265 and $420 from the amounts of the verdicts — which…
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