Hass v. United States

Plaintiff sues to recover the sum of $37,000 representing the value of timber land in Carter County, Tennessee, which *713the plaintiff claims he owns and which he asserts was taken by the defendant without payment of just compensation. Plaintiff contends that the land was not within the proper bounds of two tracts which the United States undertook to acquire in condemnation proceedings. The facts have been fully set out in our findings of fact and’ will not be restated except for the purposes of this opinion.

In 1936, the United States instituted two suits, Nos. 880 and 885 Law, in the United…