Florida Beaches v. Niagara Inv. Co.

SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

The United States condemned a tract of land in Brevard County, Florida, containing 48 acres and known as parcel 15-B. The compensation money as fixed by a trial is deposited in the district court. The court has the duty and the jurisdiction to pay it to the proper persons “as shall be just and equitable”. 40 U.S.C.A. § 258a. The money is claimed on the one hand by Niagara Investment Co., a Florida corporation, as assignee of a title to the land acquired under a foreclosure of tax liens in 1938 in a State court; and on the other hand by Florida Beaches, and others…