UNITED STATES v. HARRISON COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI

No. 71-2881.

463 F.2d 1328 (1972)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. HARRISON COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, et al., Defendants, Eldon L. Bolton, Jr., et al., Petitioners-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied September 12, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eldon L. Bolton, Jr., pro se.

Charles R. Galloway, W. Roderick Johnson, Gulfport, Miss., for Harrison County.

John D. Helm, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Shiro Kashiwa, Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert E. Hauberg, U. S. Atty., Jackson, Miss., Edmund B. Clark, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for United States.

Before GEWIN, COLEMAN and INGRAHAM, Circuit Judges.


GEWIN, Circuit Judge:

This appeal constitutes the third appearance in this court of the dispute between the United States, Harrison County, Mississippi, and the now sole remaining litigants, Dr. Eldon L. Bolton and his family, over the beach on the Mississippi Sound at Biloxi. The district court after hearing the evidence denied the Boltons' petition. We affirm.

The legend and lore which generated this litigation is extensively traced in our first opinion...

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