United States v. 7,534.04 Acres of Land

HOOPER, Chief Judge.

Defendant property owners on June 21, 1954 filed interrogatories in said case to which the Government on July 15, 1954 filed a motion for protective order.

No objection is made to Interrogatories Nos. 1 and 2.

The remaining interrogatories in effect seek to obtain information as to the name of the Government’s appraisers, copies of their appraisals, method of appraisals, a breakdown of values, etc.

In a case such as this, the burden of proof is upon the property owner to prove the value of the land in question. Value of land is primarily a matter of opinion, which no doubt…