POLICE JURY OF PLAQUEMINES PARISH v. UNITED STATES

No. 17756.

272 F.2d 827 (1959)

POLICE JURY OF PLAQUEMINES PARISH and National Surety Corporation, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 22, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. H. Perez, New Orleans, La., Rudolph M. McBride, First Asst. Dist. Atty., Pt. Sulphur, La., Leander H. Perez, Jr., Second Asst. Dist. Atty., New Orleans, La., for defendant-appellant and appellee, Police Jury of Plaquemines Parish, La.

E. E. Huppenbauer, Jr., New Orleans, La., John C. Foster, New Orleans, La., for defendant-appellant and appellee, National Surety Corp.

Roger P. Marquis, Atty., and Perry W. Morton, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., M. Hepburn Many, U. S. Atty., and Norton L. Wisdom, Asst. U. S. Atty., New Orleans, La., for appellee.

Before JONES, BROWN and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

Pursuant to applicable provisions of the Rivers and Harbors Acts, 33 U.S.C.A. §§ 593, 594, the Police Jury of Plaquemines Parish posted security in an amount estimated as proper compensation for lands to be condemned by the United States but for which the Police Jury was to bear the cost.1 Part of the deposit was in the form of a compliance bond of $150,000, involved in this controversy, with National Surety Corporation...

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