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UNITED STATES v. 6,162.78 ACRES OF LAND, ETC.

No. 81-3183.

680 F.2d 396 (1982)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. 6,162.78 ACRES OF LAND, More or Less, SITUATED IN CONCORDIA PARISH, STATE OF LOUISIANA, Defendants, and Ida Hoagland Yakey, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 14, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank S. Kennedy, Rellis P. Godfrey, Shreveport, La., for defendants-appellants.

Dosite H. Perkins, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Shreveport, La., Steven R. Baer, Kathryn A. Oberly, Arthur E. Gowran, Land and Natural Resources Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before GEE, RUBIN and GARZA, Circuit Judges.

GEE, Circuit Judge:

In 1977, the United States condemned 6,162.78 acres of land in Concordia Parish, Louisiana, as part of the Tensas Basin, Red River Backwater Area Mitigation Project, and deposited $250 per acre in court. In 1979, the deposit was raised to $306 per acre. On December 11, 1980, after listening to experts provided by the landowners and the government, the jury awarded $2,071,973, or approximately $336.21 per acre, as just compensation. The landowners...

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