UNITED STATES v. 1,000 ACRES OF LAND, ETC.

Civ. A. No. 3362.

162 F.Supp. 219 (1958)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. 1,000 ACRES OF LAND, MORE OR LESS, IN PLAQUEMINES PARISH, LOUISIANA, and I. D. Zander, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.

April 21, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norton L. Wisdom, New Orleans, La., for the United States.

Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, Ralph L. Kaskell, Jr., New Orleans, La., for defendants Hero Lands Co., Hero Wall Co., New City Co., Numa C. Hero, Jr., Mrs. Numa C. Hero, Alvin A. Hero, and Jefferson & Plaquemines Drainage Dist.

Monroe & Lemann, Ralph N. Jackson, New Orleans, La., for defendants Edwin W. Hodge, Alex T. Hunt, Stewart S. Hunt, Carolyn Hodge Kroner, Otis E. Hodge, Jr., Gladys Virginia Hodge, Nancy Kimble Hodge, Lois Hodge Glassell, Mary Margaret Hodge Sour, Jayne Hodge Turbeville, Mary Elizabeth Hodge Fleming.

Milling, Saal, Saunders, Benson & Woodward, David J. Conroy, New Orleans, La., for defendants Jefferson J. Rebstock and Robert H. Reeves.


J. SKELLY WRIGHT, District Judge.

These proceedings arise from the condemnation by the Government1 of a strip of land, approximately 800 feet wide and nine miles long running from the Mississippi River to Bayou Barataria, for the purpose of constructing an alternate waterway connection below the harbor of the City of New Orleans on the Intra-coastal Waterway. Because the cutting of the new canal affected drainage problems in the area and...

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