Lake Charles Harbor & Terminal District v. Mrs. Josephine Haltom Henning Mrs. Josephine Haltom Henning v. Lake Charles Harbor & Terminal District

GODBOLD, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a ruling that a condemnation and expropriation of appellants’ land by the Lake Charles Harbor and Terminal District was a taking for public purpose and did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. This is the second occasion we have had to review the district court’s findings with regard to this exercise of the power of eminent domain by the harbor district. 1 On the first appeal we remanded to the district court for “specific findings of fact and conclusions of law as to what use the land is to be put to and whether…