MATTHEWS v. JONES

No. 11303.

149 F.2d 893 (1945)

MATTHEWS et al. v. JONES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 23, 1945.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth Rayner, of Memphis, Tenn., for appellants.

Henry G. Johnston, of Hernando, Miss., for appellee.

Before SIBLEY, HUTCHESON, and WALLER, Circuit Judges.


SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

Permanent easements of flowage over certain lands in Mississippi were acquired by condemnation by the United States and the compensation was paid into court. The land was owned by Parker Allen, Jr., who died intestate June 10, 1935, leaving no descendants. The appellants, his collateral relatives, intervened to claim the money as his heirs. They pleaded that the land was also claimed by appellee as the grantee in a deed made to him by Ellen...

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