POLK v. BALL

No. 11259.

149 F.2d 263 (1945)

POLK et al. v. BALL.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 7, 1945.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lamar Polk, of Alexandria, La., for appellants.

Camden K. Staples, of Alexandria, La., for appellee.

Before SIBLEY, HUTCHESON, and LEE, Circuit judges.


LEE, Circuit Judge.

This case involves a contest between rival claimants of a fund fixed by a jury of freeholders as just compensation for .623 of an acre of land taken in condemnation proceedings by the United States Government.1 The condemned acreage formed part of a tract of 3.39 acres described in a deed from Kent Company, Limited, to the Alexandria & Western Railway Co., in April of 1913.

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