Vines v. Andrus

ORDER

EDWARD B. DAVIS, District Judge.

THIS MATTER is before the Court on review of final administrative action by the Department of the Interior, instituted by Plaintiffs who allege they were denied relocation benefits.

Plaintiffs claim that they were given property in the Big Cypress National Preserve by the wifes parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joffery J. Redding, in 1974. They built a frame house on the land in 1975, as well as paid their proportionate share of real property taxes.

Government agents began negotiations to purchase the property in September 1978. It appears from the record that on…