Viejo v. United States

Under authority of 50 U.S.C.A. § 171, the United States on April 1, 1940, filed in the court below a petition for condemnation of 491.7 acres of land in Puerto Rico for military purposes. On the same day a declaration of taking was filed, under the Act of February 26, 1931, 46 Stat. 1421, 40 U.S.C.A. § 258a et seq., upon which judgment was immediately entered adjudging that title to the described parcels was vested in the United States and ordering surrender of possession forthwith, except that persons “now residing in houses located on said land” were permitted to remain for a period not to…