UNITED STATES v. 8,968.06 ACRES OF LAND, ETC., TEXAS

Civ. A. No. 68-G-29.

326 F.Supp. 546 (1971)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. 8,968.06 ACRES OF LAND, MORE OR LESS, Situated IN CHAMBERS AND LIBERTY COUNTIES, TEXAS, Defendant.

United States District Court, S. D. Texas, Galveston Division.

May 7, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony P. J. Farris, U. S. Atty., Rex Green, Asst. U. S. Atty., Houston, Tex., Dollie M. Smith and Robert M. McKee, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

Harold R. DeMoss, Jr., and Patrick Oxford, of Bracewell & Patterson, Houston, Tex., for defendant.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

NOEL, District Judge.

This case involves a taking by the United States of approximately nine thousand acres of land near the mouth of the Trinity River for the Wallisville Reservoir Project, which is dedicated in part to the improvement of navigation. The Trinity River, as well as other streams and bodies of water on the property in issue, have either been conceded to be, or found to be, navigable waters of the United States. On September...

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