Dickinson v. United States

In this condemnation case judgment was entered for the landowner upon the jury’s verdict for $7,000 and an appeal was taken because of errors said to have been committed by the District Court in a ruling on the evidence and in refusing a motion for a new trial based on the ground of newly discovered evidence. A witness for the landowner testified that the value of the property when taken by the United States in 1943 was approximately $14,000. On cross examination it was brought out that the witness himself had previously owned the property and had sold it in 1937; but he could not remember…