PARADA v. UNITED STATES

No. 27464.

420 F.2d 493 (1970)

Benjamin PARADA, and wife, Rosario Jurado De Parada, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

January 14, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William L. Merkin, Colbert N. Coldwell, El Paso, Tex., for appellants.

Ted Butler, U. S. Atty., R. Caballero, Jamie C. Boyd, Asst. U. S. Attys., El Paso, Tex., Romualdo Cesar Caballero, Trial Atty., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Tax Div., Criminal Section, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before GEWIN, THORNBERRY and AINSWORTH, Circuit Judges.


THORNBERRY, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas. Appellants, plaintiffs below, are landowners whose land and other property was damaged by water that flowed from a break in an irrigation canal constructed, maintained and operated by the Bureau of Reclamation of the United States Department of the Interior. Plaintiffs brought their actions under the Federal...

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