KING v. UNITED STATES

No. 77-1907.

585 F.2d 1213 (1978)

A. Campbell KING, Jr., and wife, Mary Jane King, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 30, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger L. Dillard, Jr. and Kent Coward, Sylva, N. C. (Coward, Coward & Dillard, Sylva, N. C., on brief), for appellants.

Robert W. Frantz, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (James W. Moorman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D. C., Harold M. Edwards, U. S. Atty., Asheville, N. C., Jacques B. Gelin and Eva R. Datz, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., William W. Bargeron, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture on brief), for appellee.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, RUSSELL, Circuit Judge, and HOFFMAN, District Judge.


DONALD RUSSELL, Circuit Judge:

This is an action under § 2409a, 28 U.S.C., to quiet title to eight tracts of land claimed by the United States located in Jackson and Transylvania Counties in western North Carolina. The action was referred to a Special Master by consent of the parties. The warrant for such appointment was "that the matters in controversy in this case are complicated and complex and will involve the introduction and explanation of: detailed and...

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