GUSTE v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 6321, 6421.

55 F.2d 115 (1932)

GUSTE et al. v. UNITED STATES. KUGLER et al. v. SAME.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 25, 1932.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, of New Orleans, La., for appellants Guste and others.

C. A. Buchler, of Gretna, La., for appellants Kugler and others.

E. E. Talbot, U. S. Atty., and J. W. Hopkins, Sp. Asst. to U. S. Atty., both of New Orleans, La.

No. 6421: Before BRYAN, FOSTER, and WALKER, Circuit Judges.


BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

The United States instituted these proceedings, under the Act of Congress of May 15, 1928, providing for control of flood waters of the Mississippi river and its tributaries, 45 Stat. 534 (33 USCA § 702a et seq.), for the condemnation of two tracts of land for the use of a spillway to be constructed from the Mississippi river into Lake Pontchartrain, at an average distance of about 20 miles from...

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