KIRBY LUMBER CORPORATION v. STATE OF LOUISIANA

No. 18816.

293 F.2d 82 (1961)

KIRBY LUMBER CORPORATION, Appellant, v. STATE OF LOUISIANA, through ANACOCO-PRAIRIE STATE GAME AND FISH COMMISSION, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

As Corrected August 21, 1961.

Rehearing Denied September 16, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joyce Cox, Houston, Tex., A. B. Cavanaugh, Cavanaugh, Hickman, Brame & Holt, Edmund E. Woodley, Lake Charles, La., Fountain, Cox & Gains, Houston, Tex., for appellant.

W. R. Jackson, Jr., Leesville, La., Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen. of Louisiana, for appellee.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, RIVES, Circuit Judge, and DE VANE, District Judge.


DE VANE, District Judge.

This is a proceeding in which appellee, plaintiff below, seeks to condemn 912.45 acres of land owned by appellant, defendant below, in the Parish of Vernon, Louisiana. The land was being condemned for the purpose of constructing Anacoco Lake, which is situated about five miles west of Leesville, Louisiana, in Vernon Parish.

The Legislature of Louisiana, by an Act of 1948, created Anacoco-Prairie State Game and Fish Preserve as a political...

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