Collin County Levee Imp. Dist. No. 1 v. United States

HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from an order entered in a condemnation suit granting the motion of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for payment, out of funds deposited in the registry of the court, of the balance due on bonds issued by the Collin County, Texas, Levee Improvement District No. 1.

Brought up on an agreed statement of facts, the appeal presents the single question whether the Reconstruction Finance Corporation had a lien on the lands taken in condemnation to secure the payment of their bonds on the day when the declaration of taking was filed.

Both appellant and…