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CITY AND COUNTY OF DALLAS L. IMPROVEMENT DIST. v. ALLEN

Nos. 3681—937 to 3722—978.

17 F.Supp. 777 (1937)

CITY AND COUNTY OF DALLAS LEVEE IMPROVEMENT DIST. ex rel. SIMOND et al. v. ALLEN, and forty-one other cases.

District Court, N. D. Texas, Dallas Division.

January 12, 1937.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Robertson, W. H. Shook, Allen Charlton, Locke, Locke, Stroud & Randolph, Worsham, Burford, Ryburn & Hincks, all of Dallas, Tex., Wren, Pearson & Jeffrey, of Ft. Worth, Tex., W. H. Francis, Roy C. Ledbetter, Bromberg, Leftwich, Carrington & Gowan, Charles C. Huff, Hamilton, Hamilton & Turner, George O. Wilson, Burgess & Stewart, Turner, Rodgers & Winn, and Grady Niblo, all of Dallas, Tex., H. S. Garrett, of Fort Worth, Tex., and Bullington, Humphrey & King, of Wichita Falls, Tex., for the motions.

Thompson, Knight, Baker & Harris and Alex Weisberg, all of Dallas, Tex., and Eberhard P. Deutsch, of New Orleans, La., opposed.

ATWELL, District Judge.

The Trinity river divides the city of Dallas. Probably an hundred thousand are to the north and west of it, and more than two hundred thousand to the east and south. The main channel and the land contiguous thereto, in the total width of approximately three-quarters of a mile, overflowed once or more annually, and such territory was, therefore, uninhabitable. Over this river and valley several steel and concrete motor, street, and railway ...

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