FULLILOVE v. UNITED STATES

No. 7276.

71 F.2d 852 (1934)

FULLILOVE et ux. v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 26, 1934.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard B. Warren and J. D. Barksdale, both of Shreveport, La., for appellants.

Philip H. Mecom, U. S. Atty., and J. Fair Hardin, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Shreveport, La., and Frank J. Wideman, Asst. Atty. Gen., of Washington, D. C., for the United States.

Before BRYAN, FOSTER, and HUTCHESON, Circuit Judges.


BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

The city of Shreveport, La., in the exercise of powers conferred upon it by the Constitution and laws of that state, acquired a tract of 22,000 acres of land from private owners, and made a donation of it to the United States for military purposes. Appellants, husband and wife, owners of a part of that tract, sold it to the city; the sale being made, as they allege, "under the imminence of expropriation," but at a price "determined by appraisal...

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