Legal Opinion

Bankers Life and Casualty Company, Etc. v. The Village of North Palm Beach, Florida, Etc.

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided September 25, 1972No. 71-3519PublishedCited by 13 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

TUTTLE, Circuit Judge:

These appellants complain of the order of the trial court ordering the Army Corps of Engineers to issue a permit for dredge and fill operations by the appel-lee, Bankers Life and Casualty Company on submerged land in Lake Worth, Florida. The land in question is wholly enclosed within the Village of North Palm Beach. Bankers also owned approximately 288 acres of land within the municipal limits of the Village, which land is riparian to Lake Worth, a navigable water of the United States which opens into the Atlantic Ocean. The order which Bankers sought, and which was a…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. United States v. Chandler-Dunbar Water Power Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1913
  2. Zabel v. TabbCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1970
  3. State Ex Rel. Davis v. LoveSupreme Court of Florida · 1930
  4. Miami Beach Jockey Club, Inc. v. DernCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1936
  5. Shore v. SteckloffDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1958

3Cited by13 opinions

  1. Sierra Club v. James M. Sigler, Etc., Pelican Terminal Company and Galveston Wharves, Intervenors-AppelleesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1983
  2. United States v. Joseph G. Moretti, Inc., and Joseph G. Moretti, Jr.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1973
  3. Bankers Life & Casualty Co. v. Howard H. Callaway, Secretary of the ArmyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1976
  4. American Federation of Government Employees, Local 1858 v. CallawayDistrict Court, N.D. Alabama · 1975
  5. Montgomery v. EllisDistrict Court, N.D. Alabama · 1973

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