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Correspondence: Frank Carter to Dennis G. Brummitt, January 18, 1932

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Correspondence: Frank Carter to Dennis G. Brummitt, January 18, 1932

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Correspondence: Frank Carter to Dennis G. Brummitt, January 18, 1932

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  • January 18, 1932. Hon. Dennis 0. Brummitt, torney General, Baleigh, W. C, Dear General Brurardtt? Replying to your favor of 16th Inst.? Your observation that you "had about reached the conclusion that it would be better to try the smaller cases first, in accordance with the ideas of -Pr. Squires," moves Ml to re-state the considerations upon which the local personnel of the Park Coirr Ission and. their local counsel, with full unanimity, prefer the opposite course, Th<? trial of the smaller esses appear to us as largely matters of detail, involving, so far as we are concerned, no problems of strategy. Vt regarded the insistence of Judge Johnson and Messrs. rgan k ! nrd, upon the trial of the smaller cases at this time as purely strategic upon their part—as a mere item in the general strategy which inspired (1) the astonishing proposal which I mentioned to you, and which I believe you have forgotten, that if we would proceed with the appraisement of the Kavensford property in advance of the trial of the appeals in the WH ft case, before the sane Appraisers who had acted in the Suncrest case, they""would "refrain 'from ;hel'r threatened court attack' upon those same .Appraisers because of their conduct in the Suncrest appralsal--as they put it, they vould "raise no stink* about that matter; and (2) the initiation by the respondents of so-called compromise negotiations at ashlngton. Of course, the proposal to have th** Ravensford appraisal in advance of the trial of the appeals in the Suncrest case reant that the whole matt«r would go over until the late spring, because of the obvious impossibility of the Commissioners going upon the Ravensford property for th*? necessary preliminary examination until the spring was well advancer. Indeed, it has been reported to us, in a way that we regard as absolutely authentic, that Pr. Stevens had said that they would do everything in their power to prevent the Suncrest and Ravensford cases froj' coming on for final adjudication until there had been a decided change In general business conditions. ,,e think we know from a variety of circumstances that this is the general policy of our advers■r1• 11 . Upon the other hand, we are unable to imagine a better time to subject the extravagant clalrs of these people to the acid test of a jury trial than the present. Not only may we hope for a realistic appraisement by'the jury, but we feel that any reasonable verdict by jiiry would shop up in its true colors the contemptible innuendo that the (Jorrmission^rs of Appraisement had been corruptly influenced
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Great Smoky Mountains - A Park for America

This digital collection was created to contribute to the public's understanding of the forces and ideas that led to the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1934. The most vi...

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