GENERAL BOX CO. v. UNITED STATES

Civ. Nos. 2536 and 2804.

119 F.Supp. 749 (1954)

GENERAL BOX CO. v. UNITED STATES.

United States District Court W. D. Louisiana, Alexandria Division.

March 30, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred G. Benton, Baton Rouge, La., Carl C. Chadwick, Natchez, Miss., Barnett, Barnett & Jones, Jackson, Miss., Jackson B. Davis, Shreveport, La., for plaintiff.

T. Fitzhugh Wilson, U. S. Atty., Shreveport, La., Sol B. Pressburg, Alexandria, La., Thompson L. Clarke, Dist. Atty., St. Joseph, La., for defendant.


DAWKINS, District Judge.

A new trial was granted in these cases, and they were subsequently resubmitted on the same record.

On further consideration of the law, the court is now convinced that while the Fifth District Levee Board was not bound to conform strictly to the provisions of Title 19, §§ 1-13 of the LSA-Revised Statutes, dealing with the expropriation of private property, still there had to be action appropriate to the circumstances,...

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