Tigertail Quarries, Inc. v. United States

McCORD, Circuit Judge.

The United States instituted condemnation proceedings to take thirty-one parcels *111of land to be used as a Naval Training Base at Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Tigertail Quarries, Inc. owned approximately 42 acres of these lands. The case was tried to a jury which found and assessed the value of the Tigertail properties to be $12,158. From the judgment entered on this verdict Tigertail Quarries, Inc., appealed.

On May 28, 1942, the United States condemned 960 acres of land for the establishment of a Naval Training Base at Ft. Lauderdale. Under the Second War Powers Act of March…