Leovy v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OE APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT. At the April term of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana an indictment was found, charging Augustus F. Leovy and Robert S. Leovy, both of the parish of Plaquemines, State of Louisiana, with, on the 16th of November,'1895, unlawfully, wilfully, knowingly and without permission of the Secretary of War, building and causing to be built a dam in and across a certain…
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OE APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT. At the April term of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana an indictment was found, charging Augustus F. Leovy and Robert S. Leovy, both of the parish of Plaquemines, State of Louisiana, with, on the 16th of November,'1895, unlawfully, wilfully, knowingly and without permission of the Secretary of War, building and causing to be built a dam in and across a certain navigable stream of the United States known as Red Pass, and outside of any established harbor lines, which said Red Pass flows…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shiras
On March 2, 1849, the Congress of the United States by an act of that date, c. 87, entitled “An act to aid .the State of Louisiana in draining the swamp land therein,” enacted : “ That to aid the State of Louisiana in constructing the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein, the whole of those swamp and overflowed lands, which may be or are found unfit for cultivation, shall be, and the same are herebir, granted to that State.” 9 Stat. 352.
Similar grants have been made by Congress to other States within whose boundaries were undrained swamp and overflowed…
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