United States v. Certain Property Located in Borough of Manhattan

MOORE, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal by defendants, Steven and Martin H. Goodstein (appellants) from a judgment in a condemnation proceeding brought by plaintiff, United States of America (the Government), awarding to appellants “as just compensation for the property acquired” the sum of $600,000. Appellants find nothing “just” in this award and attribute it to the District Court’s exclusion of (to them) vital evidence and to error in its instructions to the Commissioners who fixed this value.

On July 26, 1962, the Government filed proceedings to condemn the fee simple to the land herein…