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KLUGH v. UNITED STATES

No. 77-1678.

588 F.2d 45 (1978)

Margaret KLUGH, Katherine Klugh Maultsby, Mary Klugh Garner, John Bradley Klugh, William W. Bradley, III, Frederick H. Bradley, Patrick H. Bradley, Edna Bradley Troxell, Hugh W. Bradley, Mabel Bradley Payne, Mary Bradley Pressly, Thomas R. Bradley, William T. Bradley, Margaret Bradley Poole, Davis W. Bradley, John T. Bradley, Jr., Frances K. Bradley, Mark E. Bradley, Jr., Elizabeth Bradley McGarity, Robert F. Bradley, III, Thomas J. Bradley, Frances Wright Bradley, III, Mary Bradley Brown, Rufus A. Johnson, III, William R. Bradley, II, Margaret Bradley Shuford, Arthur L. Bradley, James B. Bradley, Curtis L. Bradley, Davis J. Wardlaw, Martha Wardlaw Buie, Forest Bradley Wardlaw, Jr., Ivey Jean Wardlaw Pressly, Robert S. Wardlaw, William W. Wardlaw, Mildred E. Wardlaw, John U. Wardlaw, Mary Wardlaw Deason, Annie Wardlaw Wright, Frances M. Wardlaw, John K. Bradley, Mary Bradley Miller, Martha Bradley Moody, Frances Trenholm Bradley, Jane H. Bradley, Martha B. Mayo, Robert F. Bradley, Jr., Eustabe U. Bradley, Mary Bradley Cox, and Frances Thompson Sheppard, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, certain lands located in Abbeville, Greenwood and McCormick Counties, South Carolina, being a portion of the estate of W. K. Bradley, Deceased, and the United States Department of Agriculture, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided November 17, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Fred Buzhardt, Beaufort, S. C. (Barry L. Johnson, Dowling, Dowling, Sanders & Dukes, Beaufort, S. C., Joseph O. Rogers, Jr., Rogers, Riggs & Rickenbaker, Sumter, S. C., on brief), for appellants.

Carl Strass, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (James W. Moorman, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D. C., Thomas E. Lydon, Jr., U. S. Atty., Columbia, S. C., James D. McCoy, III, Asst. U. S. Atty., Greenville, S. C., Edmund B. Clark and James R. Arnold, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., on brief), for appellees.

Before WINTER, BUTZNER and HALL, Circuit Judges.

WINTER, Circuit Judge:

The principal question in this appeal is the meaning of the will of W. K. Bradley of South Carolina who died on December 30, 1881 with respect to the persons in whom the fee of his real property vests. The question arises because certain of the testator's lineal descendants claim that, as devisees under the will, they have property interests in land previously owned by him which were not validly acquired by the United States in several condemnation...

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