United States v. Leavell & Ponder, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis

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60 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 state decisions

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1. ““The projects were constructed under the aegis of the Wherry Act, which was enacted on August 8, 1949, in an attempt to relieve an acute shortage of housing which existed at that time at military installations throughout the country. The Act envisioned the construction of this needed housing by private builders and its provisions were consequently specifically designed to remove what appeared to its chief proponents to be the major impediments to such construction. The then current view of the problem was concisely expressed by Senator Wherry himself: “ ‘There are three requisites that must be provided in this legislation if it is to be successful: The program must be attractive to the builder or else you will get no construction; it must be attractive to the mortgage banker who supplies the money; the project must be made attractive to the Federal Housing Authority to enable it to set rental prices within the reach of families in the lower income brackets as well as in the higher brackets.’ “The Wherry Act proposed to meet these requisites by providing for: (1) the elimination of land and acquisition costs by the leasing of land on military installations on long-term, irrevocable leases at nominal rentals; (2) a special form of mortgage insurance which avoided the problem created by the fact that ordinary F.H.A. mortgage insurance was unavailable because of the risk involved by reason of the location of the needed housing and the question as to the permanent nature of the mi”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Certain Interests in Property

2. ““There is no place in valuation proceedings for such testimony. For one to give an opinion on value he is ordinarily required to base such opinion on knowledge of sales at arm’s length and without compulsion of comparable properties or on knowledge of the rate of return which the ordinary prudent investor requires in order to invest in a comparable project when he has complete freedom of choice.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. 883.89 Acres of Land

3. “The figure arrived at by the commissioners would much better have been supported by subsidiary findings of fact. * * * Without adequate subsidiary findings it is impossible for this Court to test the correctness of the elements of which it is the product or the sum.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. 2,872.88 Acres of Land, More or Less, Situate in Clay and Quitman Counties, State of Georgia, and Frank Humber, and Unknown Owners, United States of America v. 1,361.09 Acres of Land, More of Less, Situate in Clay County, State Ofgeorgia, and Carolyn Gavin Gibson, and Unknown Owners