Legal Opinion
Fullilove v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 26, 1934No. 7276PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRYAN, Circuit Judge.
The city of Shreveport, La., in the exereise of powers conferred upon it by the Constitution and laws of that state, acquired a tract of 22,000 acres of land from private owners, and made a donation of it to the United States for military purposes. Appellants, husband and wife, owners of a part of that tract, sold it to the city; the sale being made, as they allege, “under the imminence of expropriation,” but at a price “determined by appraisal and fixed by agreement as just and adequate compensation.” From the sale, which was made in 1929, they realized a gain or profit…
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