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UNITED STATES v. GREER DRAINAGE DIST.

No. 9868.

121 F.2d 675 (1941)

UNITED STATES v. GREER DRAINAGE DIST. OF MARSHALL AND LAFAYETTE COUNTIES, MISSISSIPPI, et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 7, 1941.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John P. Hearne, Asst. Atty., Department of Justice, of Washington, D. C., George T. Mitchell, U. S. Atty., of Tupelo, Miss., and Lester M. Sack, Sp. Asst. to the U. S. Atty., of Clarksdale, Miss., for appellant.

R. L. Smallwood, Jr., of Oxford, Miss., for appellees.

Before FOSTER, SIBLEY, and HUTCHESON, Circuit Judges.

SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

The appeal is from a decree distributing the just compensation paid into court on proceedings brought by the United States to condemn certain lands for flood control and navigation purposes. The facts as found by the district court are not disputed. The lands lie in Greer Drainage District, in Mississippi, which owed over $92,000 in bonds secured by drainage assessment liens on the lands. The entire assets of the District would pay not more...

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