Legal Opinion
United States v. CERTAIN PARCELS OF LAND, ETC.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided August 16, 1944No. 8234PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BARD, District Judge.
This appeal raises a single question. In a case to determine the value of property taken by the United States under the power of eminent domain, is a written contract for the sale of the identical property executed shortly before the taking admissible in evidence as bearing on the market value of the property?
The trial court refused to receive into evidence such a contract offered by appellant-owner.
On August 25, 1941 the United States instituted proceedings to condemn certain parcels of land in the City of Philadelphia, among which was a tract of about 88 acres belonging…
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