Luther v. State

Appeal from so much of an order of the Court of Claims, entered July 27, 1976, as denied defendant’s cross motion *929to strike certain parties. In 1945 the United States leased certain portions of a large wooded tract of land in the Towns of Malta and Stillwater in Saratoga County. The leased area was a portion of a larger area known locally as the Luther Forest, and it became known as the Malta Test Station and was used for research and testing of sophisticated weaponry. On March 3, 1955 the United States, through the exercise of its power of eminent domain, took from the Luther family a fee…