WOLFE v. HURLEY

Nos. 383, 384.

46 F.2d 515 (1930)

WOLFE et al. v. HURLEY, Secretary of War, et al. PHILLIPS v. SAME.

District Court, W. D. Louisiana, Monroe Division.

September 29, 1930.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tullis & Wade, of Vidalia, La., and Borah, Himel & Bloch, of New Orleans, La., for complainants.

Philip H. Mecom, U. S. Atty., and J. O. Modisette, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Shreveport, La., Jeff B. Snyder, of Tallulah, La., and Hudson, Potts, Bernstein & Sholars, of Monroe, La., for respondents.

Before FOSTER, Circuit Judge, and HOLMES and DAWKINS, District Judges.


DAWKINS, District Judge.

These two cases involve identical issues, and will be disposed of in one opinion. In their original bill, complainants allege their ownership and possession of certain plantation property in this district, and that the suit is one of a local nature, arising under the Constitution and laws of the United States, to wit, the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments and the statute of May 15, 1928, commonly known as the Flood Control Act (33 USCA §...

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