United States v. 340 Acres of Land

WYCHE, District Judge.

(Designate)

Forest Hills Hotel, Inc., the condemnee, owned and operated a winter resort hotel near the city limits of Augusta, in Richmond County, Georgia. The property consisted of a stucco hotel building of some two hundred, ninety-two rooms, servants’ dormitory, stable and garage buildings, golf course and small clubhouse, together with about 650 acres of land.

The United States filed two condemnation petitions within a space of about four months under which it acquired for military uses all of the aforesaid property except approximately 300 acres of marginal lands.

The…