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UNITED STATES v. BURAS

No. 31115.

458 F.2d 346 (1972)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross Appellee, and Chevron Oil Company et al., Additional Defendants-Appellants-Cross Appellees, v. Leo BURAS Jr., et al., Defendants-Appellees-Cross Appellants, v. Philibert BURAS et al., Intervenors-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 23, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence K. Benson, Charles D. Marshall, Wilson S. Shirley, Jr., New Orleans, La., for Chevron Oil Co. and Allen L. Lobrano.

Sidney C. Schoenberger, New Orleans, La., Luke A. Petrovich, Buras, La., for P. Buras and others.

Turner Hudson McBaine, Donald E. Peterson, San Francisco, Cal., for other appellants.

Gerald J. Gallinghouse, U. S. Atty., New Orleans, La., Shiro Kashiwa, Asst. Atty. Gen., Edmund D. Clark, Atty., John J. Cain, Dept. of Justice, Land Div., Washington, D. C., for the United States.

Phillip A. Wittmann, New Orleans, La., E. Drew McKinnis, Baton Rouge, La., for L. Buras and others.

John H. Tucker, Jr., Shreveport, La., for other appellees.

Before TUTTLE, GEWIN and GOLDBERG, Circuit Judges.

TUTTLE, Circuit Judge:

The dispute in this case centers around certain lands located in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. Essentially, this court is asked to decide between claimants who claim to take under two different chains of title. Because one of these chains leads directly to the United States Government, which is presently both a possessor and a lessor of the lands in dispute, what, at first blush, seems clearly a problem for the state courts, finds itself before...

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