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LEOVY v. UNITED STATES

No. 238.

177 U.S. 621 (1900)

LEOVY v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 14, 1900.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Victor Leovy for Leovy. Mr. Henry J. Leovy and Mr. Alexander Porter Morse were on his brief.

Mr. George Hines Gorman for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE SHIRAS, after making the above statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

On March 2, 1849, the Congress of the United States by an act of that date, c. 87, entitled "An act to aid the State of Louisiana in draining the swamp land therein," enacted: "That to aid the State of Louisiana in constructing the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein, the whole of those swamp and overflowed lands, which may be or are...

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