Thomas Bedford v. United States
Decision Date | 18 January 1904 |
Docket Number | No. 23,23 |
Citation | 192 U.S. 217,48 L.Ed. 414,24 S.Ct. 238 |
Parties | THOMAS C. BEDFORD and Emma Bedford, Appts. , v. UNITED STATES |
Court | U.S. Supreme Court |
The appellants were owners of land on the Mississippi river in the state of Louisiana, amounting to 5,000 or 6,000 acres, upon which were cabins, other buildings, and fences. They brought suit in the court of claims for damages to their lands, alleged to have resulted from certain works of the United States. The damages consisted, as found by the court, of the erosion and overflow of about 2,300 acres of the land. The works of the government, and their operation, are described by the court in the following findings:
'In making the improvement aforesaid, the defendants did not recognize any right of property in the claimants in and to the right alleged to be affected, and did not assume to take private property in and by the construction of the revetment, but proceeded in the exercise of a claimed right to improve the navigation of the river.
'The damage to the claimants, and each of them, by reason of the washing away of their lands during their respective ownership, as aforesaid, is an excess of $3,000.
The court deduced from the facts that the claimants were not entitled to recover,...
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