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UNITED STATES v. 101.88 ACRES OF LAND, ETC.

No. 77-2768.

616 F.2d 762 (1980)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. 101.88 ACRES OF LAND, MORE OR LESS, SITUATED IN ST. MARY PARISH, STATE OF LOUISIANA, and John M. Singleton et al., and unknown owners, Defendants, Avoca, Incorporated, a Louisiana Corporation, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 5, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John T. Nesser, III, New Orleans, La., for defendant-appellant.

Martin Green, James W. Moorman, Asst. Attys. Gen., Peter R. Steenland, Jr., Carl Strass, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Edward Shaheen, U. S. Atty., D. H. Perkins, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Shreveport, La., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before WISDOM, TJOFLAT and REAVLEY, Circuit Judges.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

This appeal concerns the claim of a landowner for damages in a condemnation proceeding for the government's use of lands contiguous to those condemned.

On February 1, 1977, the United States filed a complaint in condemnation and a declaration of taking covering certain lands in the Atchafalaya River and in Bayou Chene, Bayou Boeuf, and Bayou Black. The taking was authorized by P.L. 90-483, August 17, 1968, 82 Stat. 731, as amended by...

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