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DANFORTH v. UNITED STATES

No. 11255.

102 F.2d 5 (1939)

DANFORTH v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

March 4, 1939.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. L. London, of St. Louis, Mo. (Leahy, Walther, Hecker & Ely, of St. Louis, Mo., on the brief), for appellant.

Charles R. Denny, Jr., Atty., Department of Justice of Washington, D. C. (Carl McFarland, Asst. Atty. Gen., L. John Weber, of St. Louis, Mo., and William R. Sherwood, of Washington, D. C., Sp. Attys., and Oscar A. Provost, Atty., Department of Justice, of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for the United States.

Before SANBORN, WOODROUGH, and THOMAS, Circuit Judges.

THOMAS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered in condemnation proceedings brought by the United States to obtain flowage rights over certain tracts of land located in Mississippi and New Madrid Counties, Missouri, pursuant to the provisions of the Mississippi River Flood Control Act of May 15, 1928, 45 Stat. 534, 33 U.S.C.A. § 702a et seq. The appellant, claiming ownership of 1,033.56 acres designated in the record as Tract No. 243, seeks to...

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