Legal Opinion
Wolfe v. Hurley
District Court, W.D. Louisiana
Decided September 29, 1930No. 383, 384PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DAWKINS, District Judge.
These two eases involve identical issues, and will be disposed of in one opinion. In their original bill, complainants allege their ownership and possession of certain plantation property in this district, and that the suit is one of a local nature, arising under the Constitution and laws of the United States, to wit, the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments and the statute of May 15, 1928, commonly known as the Flood Control Act (33 USCA § 702a et seq.). They allege further that, assuming to proceed under said act, the board of commissioners of the Fifth Louisiana levee…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Eldridge v. TrezevantSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- Commonwealth v. EvansMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1869
- Holmes v. . CarleyNew York Court of Appeals · 1865
- Green v. Board of Com'rsSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1927
- Boyce Cottonseed Oil Mfg. Co. v. Board of Com'rsSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1925
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3Cited by29 opinions
- City of Nome v. Catholic Bishop of Northern AlaskaAlaska Supreme Court · 1985
- General Box Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
- Delaune v. Board of CommissionersSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1956
- Board of Com'rs of Tensas Basin Levee Dist. v. FranklinSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1951
- Pruyn v. Nelson Bros.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1934
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