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U.S. v. 499.472 ACRES OF LAND MORE OR LESS IN BRAZORIA

No. 81-2404.

701 F.2d 545 (1983)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. 499.472 ACRES OF LAND MORE OR LESS IN BRAZORIA COUNTY, TEXAS, Freeport Minerals Company, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 1, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jacques B. Gelin, Anne S. Almy, Atty., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Land & Resources Div., Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellant.

Alfred H. Ebert, Jr., Houston, Tex., for Freeport Minerals.

Ewing Werlein, Jr., Daniel A. Hyde, H. Dixon Montague, Houston, Tex., for Dow Chemical Co. USA.

David F. Beale, Houston, Tex., for Henry R. Hamman.

Before BROWN and JOLLY, Circuit Judges, and MAHON, District Judge.

E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:

This case involves the valuation of condemned property. In 1977 the government acquired 500 acres of land on the Bryan Mound Salt Dome, two and one-half miles southwest of Freeport, Texas. Freeport Minerals Company owned the surface interest; Dow Chemical Company owned an underlying lease from Freeport, pursuant to which it mined salt; and Henry Hamman and others owned title to the sulphur under the condemned land.

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