United States v. Lambert

L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of condemnation of certain lands in Suffolk County, New York; the only issue is the amount of the award. As to this the owner alleges two errors: (1) That the court made the award itself, instead of appointing commissioners, as the New York law required (§ 14, Condemnation Law, Consol. Laws, c. 73) ; (2) that the award was too low. The facts were as follows. The land in question consisted of three plots — designated “A”, “B” and “C” — ; two of which —“A” and “B” — were adjacent to land owned and in the possession of the Republic…