United States v. 120,000 Acres of Land

ATWELL, District Judge.

This suit pends at the San Angelo division. It is for the condemnation of 120,000 acres of land vested in something under four hundred persons, the ultimate fixing of just compensation, and was filed in August, 1942. Payments of about two millón dollars have already been made, and probably that amount yet remains to be paid.

During the progress of the ascertainment of just compensation for the various 'tracts,' taken in Brown and Mills Counties, •which comprise the entire holdings at Camp Bowie, the state legislature enacted a statute exempting such lands from -certain…