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- Title: Roth v. Swanson.
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- Release Date : January 03, 1944
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 58 KB
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These two appeals are from judgments determining the just compensation for the taking of properties of the appellants by the government for an ordnance plant in Des Moines County, Iowa. Separate proceedings were brought by the United States, one to condemn 235 acres of land owned by Bertha B. Foster and W. E. Foster, and one to condemn 132.25 acres of land owned by Henry C. Buescher. The suits were consolidated for trial and are consolidated on appeal though a separate judgment was entered in each case. The proceedings have been twice tried and twice appealed. On the first trial damages for the taking of the Foster lands were assessed by the jury at $42,000, while damages for the taking of the Buescher lands were assessed by the jury at $31,250. On appeal by the government we reversed because we were of the view that the trial court should not have permitted proof as to alleged industrial value of the land which might result from the establishment by the government of the ordnance plant for which the lands were being taken and because the court permitted evidence of prices paid by the government for other lands secured for this same project in an attempt to avoid litigation. United States v. Foster, 8 Cir., 131 F.2d 3. On the second trial, resulting in judgments from which the present appeals are prosecuted, damages for the taking of the Foster lands were fixed at $31,365, and for the taking of the Buescher land at $21,250.