Land Grantors v. United States

ELR Citation: ELR 20097
No(s). 93-648X (Fed. Cl. Apr 18, 2008)

The Federal Claims court recommended that $34.3 million be awarded to former Kentucky landowners whose farms were taken during World War II (WWII) for a military training facility. When the federal government condemned the land, it paid only for the surface rights, not for the underlying mineral rig...