Legal Opinion
United States v. Brooklyn Union Gas Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 19, 1948No. 194, Docket 20903PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLARK, Circuit Judge.
In the case of United States v. City of New York, 2 Cir., 168 F.2d 387, just decided, we have held that an award in condemnation proceedings for the taking of streets or other public facilities of a municipality should not be more than the cost of replacing them or supplying otherwise adequate facilities. Here we have the problem as applied to the facilities of public utilities companies, one supplying gas, the other electricity, to the premises taken by the United States on its expansion of the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1941. The questions concern the same two tracts in…
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