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UNITED STATES v. CERTAIN LAND SITUATE IN WAYNE CO., ETC.

Nos. 76-W, 118-W, 128-W, 130-W, 132-W, 134-W, 145-W, 146-W.

40 F.Supp. 792 (1941)

UNITED STATES v. CERTAIN LAND SITUATE IN WAYNE COUNTY, STATE OF MISSOURI, WAPPAPELLO RESERVOIR, ST. FRANCIS RIVER PROJECT et al.

District Court, E. D. Missouri, Southeastern Division.

September 18, 1941.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry C. Blanton, U. S. Atty., of Sikeston, Mo., and M. Walker Cooper, Sp. Asst. to the U. S. Atty., of Bloomfield, Mo., for plaintiff.

Rush H. Limbaugh, of Cape Girardeau, Mo., for certain defendants.

James A. Finch and James A. Finch, Jr., both of Cape Girardeau, Mo., and Roy W. McGhee, of Piedmont, Mo., for certain defendants.

DAVIS, District Judge.

The above cases are condemnation proceedings to acquire property essential to the construction of the Wappapello Reservoir on the St. Francis River. This project is part of the Mississippi River flood control program, authorized by Act of May, 1928, 33 U.S.C.A. 702a et seq., and extended to tributary streams by Act of June, 1936, 33 U.S.C.A. §§ 702j—1, 702j—2 and 702k—1.

The applicable statute, § 702d...

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