SPONENBARGER v. UNITED STATES

No. 7984.

21 F.Supp. 28 (1937)

SPONENBARGER v. UNITED STATES.

District Court, E. D. Arkansas, W. D.

As Modified December 23, 1937.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lamar Williamson, of Monticello, Ark., and E. E. Hopson, of McGehee, Ark., for plaintiff Julia Caroline Sponenbarger.

Fred A. Isgrig, U. S. Atty., of Little Rock, Ark., and John C. Dyott, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., for the United States.

Henry Davis, of St. Louis, Mo. (of Bryan, Williams, Cave & McPheeters, of St. Louis, Mo.), for St. Louis Union Trust Co.

Hendrix Rowell, of Pine Bluff, Ark., and De Witt Poe, of McGehee, Ark., for Cypress Creek Drainage Dist., and Alex H. Rowell and William R. Humphrey, receivers.

J. W. House, of Little Rock, Ark., for Grady Miller, receiver of Southeast Arkansas Levee Dist.

Fred Armstrong, of St. Louis, Mo. (of Thompson, Mitchell, Thompson & Young, of St. Louis, Mo.), for Mercantile-Commerce Bank & Trust Co. and Mercantile Commerce Nat. Bank.


DAVIS, District Judge.

This action was instituted under the Tucker Act, 28 U.S.C.A. § 41 (20), for compensation for the alleged taking of plaintiff's property for a public purpose. Plaintiff owns forty acres of land in Desha county, Ark., the fair market value of which, it is alleged, was reduced from $5,000 to $1,000 as a result of the establishment of the Boeuf floodway, which included plaintiff's property, under authority of the Flood Control Act of May 15...

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