Legal Opinion
Carl Thetford, Mamie Thetford, Charles Phelps, Irene Phelps and Sooner State Securities, Inc. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided December 4, 1968No. 9816PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HILL, Circuit Judge.
The appeal is by landowners from an order overruling their objections to the taking of their lands by the Government and from the judgment determining ownership and just compensation in a land condemnation suit.
After the condemnation suit was filed the landowners attacked the right of the United States to take the particular land based upon the same argument urged here. The trial judge rejected the argument and held the taking to be within the authority of the Secretary of the Interior.
A recitation of a part of the history of the project involved is neces sary to resolve…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Botany Worsted Mills v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1929
- United States v. Missouri Pacific RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1929
- Helvering v. City Bank Farmers Trust Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1935
- United States v. MerzSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Wendell S. Wilson and Mary Ellen R. Wilson, His Wife v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1965
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3Cited by7 opinions
- United States v. 2,606.84 Acres of Land in Tarrant County, Texas, and Frank CornCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1970
- United States v. 79.95 Acres of Land, More or LessCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1972
- United States v. Helen Louise Corbin, Virginia May Wyllie, Appellants-LandownersCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1970
- Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. v. AlexanderDistrict Court, N.D. Mississippi · 1979
- United States v. 187.40 Acres of Land, Huntingdon Cty., Pa.District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania · 1974
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