Yaist v. United States

This just compensation case, tried before former Trial Judge Browne, concerns the title to some property located in the Florida Everglades. The trial judge ruled that the plaintiffs property had been taken and that compensation was owing in an amount to be determined in a separate *283trial. We agree with that determination but for somewhat different reasons.1

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Both the United States and the plaintiff, Clyde R. Yaist, claim title to the same property through purchase, and the merits of the case turn on the recordation-notice law of Florida. In 1968, Olson Florida Realty Company (Olson or Olson…