United States v. 403.15 Acres of Land, More or Less

OPINION

WILLIAM E. MILLER, Circuit Judge (sitting by designation).

This case, arising on a cross-claim, involves a dispute between two defendants *656as to the proper disposition of a $58,-500.00 monetary award made by the United States in compensation for the taking of certain tracts of land in order to facilitate the completion of the J. Percy Priest Dam and Reservoir Project. Though these tracts are more particularly and completely described in the complaint and declaration of taking entered on June 21, 1967, it suffices for present purposes to describe the land involved as three tracts numbered…