Mayor and City Council of Baltimore v. United States

SOPER, Circuit Judge.

The District Court, sitting by consent of the parties without a jury in a condemnation proceeding, awarded the City of Baltimore $1 as full and just compensation for the taking by the United States of the City’s interest in one and a half acres of land on which were located public alleys in a real estate development in the City known as Fairfield, and taken by the United States for use as a shipyard for the building of ships. The City appealed on the ground that for all practical purposes it owned the land in the bed of the alleys and was entitled to the market value…