In re Certain Land in Lawrence

Citations

• 119 F. 453
• 1902 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 273

Syllabus

<p>1. Condemnation for Post Office—Land Dedicated for a Park—Contest— Compensation.</p> <p>Under the laws and decisions of Massachusetts, governing in a proceeding by the United States to condemn land in that state for a post office, a city in which land has been dedicated for use of its inhabitants as a public park cannot have compensation therefor, it having no legal estate in the land; but it may contest the taking on the ground that the public use as a post office Is not superior to the public use as a park.</p> <p>¶ 1. See Eminent Domain, vol. 18, Cent. Dig. § 219.</p>