United States v. Runner

MURRAH, Circuit Judge.

By this appeal, we are asked to decide whether in the course of a condemnation proceedings, it is reversible error to submit the question of value of separately owned tracts of land to the jury as a single unit or tract, over the objection of the condemnor.

In April 1947, the United States filed its petition to condemn forty-nine tracts of land in Blaine and Dewey counties, Oklahoma, one of which was the 200 acres involved in this suit. On October 3, 1947, the court entered an order finding that the appellees here were the owners of the land and entitled to receive just…