United States v. Kennesaw Mountain Battlefield Ass'n

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

Appeal and cross appeal in a condemnation suit, entered on a verdict increased from $9,000 to $16,000 by an additur, required by the District Judge and consented to by the United States.

Appellant insists that the District Judge was, under the circumstances existent here, without authority to require an additur, and that, despite its consent to the increase, judgment should have been entered for it on the original verdict.

Cross appellants, agreeing with the United States that the requirement of the additur was unauthorized, 1 and was without effect, insist that the…