United States v. 550.6 Acres of Land

RUSSELL, District Judge.

This case by agreement of the parties was submitted to the court for trial and determination without the intervention of a jury.

The United States Government condemned a tract of land in Chattooga County, Georgia, for a part of a forestry preserve, and in the petition Miss Shropshire, as executrix, and Mrs. Glass were named as ostensible owners, but reference was also made to the likelihood of some claim or interest on the part of the intestate of Mrs. Nellie Norman Hicks, as administratrix, who now appears as a claimant as adminis-tratrix of the estate of Elizabeth…