Guste v. United States

BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

The United States instituted these proceedings, under the Act of Congress of May *11615, 1928, providing for control of flood waters of the Mississippi river and ifis tributaries, 45 Stat. 534 (33 USCA § 702a et seq.), for the condemnation of two tracts of land for the use of a spillway to be constructed from the Mississippi river into Lake P'ontchartrain, at an average distance of about 20 miles from the city of New Orleans. One of these tracts, known as the Guste-Johnson tract, contains about 2,000' acres, has a frontage on the lake of 3,492 feet, and extends back between…