GENERAL BOX CO. v. UNITED STATES

Civ. Nos. 2536, 2804.

94 F.Supp. 441 (1951)

GENERAL BOX CO. v. UNITED STATES.

United States District Court W. D. Louisiana, Monroe Division.

January 2, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred G. Benton, Baton Rouge, La., Carl A. Chadwick, Natchez, Miss., Barnett, Barnett & Jones, Jackson, Miss., Jackson B. Davis, Shreveport, La., for plaintiff.

Harvey L. Carey, William J. Fleniken, Shreveport, La., for defendant.


DAWKINS, Chief Judge.

In these two cases the same plaintiff sues, in the first, the United States and Pioneer Contracting Co., Inc. (called Pioneer), and in the second, the Government alone, for the value of timber alleged to have been owned by plaintiff apart from the land and which was destroyed in the process of building or repairing levees on the Mississippi River.

In both cases, motions to dismiss, on substantially the same grounds, were filed, save in...

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