United States v. Honolulu Plantation Co. Honolulu Plantation Co. v. United States

JAMES ALGER FEE, District Judge.

The United States instituted thirteen actions, now consolidated, to condemn land in Hawaii. Honolulu Plantation Company had several claims for compensation, part of which have been paid. But Plantation claims “severance damages” because of loss of value of its properties as an operating concern by condemnation of property held in fee by third parties, resulting in an overcapacity of the sugar mill and refinery,, since it was claimed there was failure to obtain the customary supply of cane from such fields.

All the relevant evidence as to the claim of “severance…