General Box Co. v. United States

DAWKINS, District Judge.

A new trial was granted in these cases, and they were subsequently resubmitted on the same record.

On further consideration of the law, the court is now convinced that while the Fifth District Levee Board was not bound to conform strictly to the provisions of Title 19, §§ 1-13 of the LSA-Revised Statutes, dealing with the expropriation of private property, still there had to be action appropriate to the circumstances, in which the land or property owner would be given some notice that he was to be deprived of his property. It cannot be overlooked in these consolidated…