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UNITED STATES v. 31,221.07 ACRES OF LAND, ETC.

Civ. A. Nos. 831, 3108.

143 F.Supp. 385 (1956)

UNITED STATES of America v. 31,221.07 ACRES OF LAND, MORE OR LESS, SITUATED IN VERNON PARISH, LOUISIANA, and Pickering Lumber Corporation et al. UNITED STATES of America v. 33,488.04 ACRES OF LAND, MORE OR LESS, SITUATED IN NATCHITOCHES, SABINE AND VERNON PARISHES, LOUISIANA, and Peavy-Wilson Lumber Company, Inc., et al.

United States District Court W. D. Louisiana, Lake Charles and Shreveport Divisions.

Rehearing Denied June 26, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. Fitzhugh Wilson, U. S. Atty., and Edmund E. Woodley, Asst. U. S. Atty., Shreveport, La., for the Government.

Lawes, Cavanaugh, Hickman & Brame, Lake Charles, La., Gold, Hall & Skye, Alexandria, La., Simon & Carroll, Shreveport, La., Broyles & Funderburk, Leesville, La., Richard L. Crowell, Alexandria, La., for defendants.

BENJAMIN C. DAWKINS, Jr., Chief Judge.

Presented by this record is an example of how the property rights of private citizens, guaranteed by the Federal Constitution and Statutes, can be almost literally trampled by an arrogant and indifferent bureaucracy, in the name of "public interest".

These condemnation suits were filed respectively in 1948 and 1950. That long ago the Government took from defendants, for National...

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