United States v. 17,280 Acres of Land

DELEHANT, District Judge.

A single question is submitted to the court for determination; and that is the extent to which interest shall be included in the final judgment in this action, by which the petitioner has acquired real estate as the site for a defense plant. The question concerns twenty-six of the condemned tracts, the just compensation for whose taking was determined by the verdict of a jury in a single trial. Upon the return of the verdict, judgment upon it was announced, and the present problem arises in the course of the preparation of the formal judgment.

This action was…