Legal Opinion
Land Grantors v. United States
United States Court of Federal Claims
Decided April 18, 2008No. 93-648XPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FINAL REPORT AND MEMORANDUM OPINION REGARDING S. 794, “A BILL FOR THE RELIEF OF LAND GRANTORS IN HENDERSON, UNION, AND WEBSTER COUNTIES, KENTUCKY, AND THEIR HEIRS.”1
BRADEN, Judge and Hearing Officer.
Following the onset of World War II, the United States (“Government”) acquired, pursuant to the War Purposes Act of 1917, 40 Stat. 241 (codified as amended at 50 U.S.C. § 171) (repealed 1956) (‘War Purposes Act”), approximately 35,849.28 acres of land in the counties of Henderson, Union, and Webster, Kentucky, to establish an Army training facility that was named Camp Breckinridge. Almost all of…
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