Mills v. United States
U.S. Circuit Court for the Southern District of Georgia
At Law.
1Opinion of the CourtSpeer, J.
The plaintiffs filed their petition under the provisions of the act of congress of March 3,1887, (24 St. at Large, p. 505,) to recover from the United States compensation for injury to the value of their lands caused by the. erection of works by the government, for the improvement of the navigation of the Savannah river. The petition avers that the plaintiffs owned rice plantations on Hutchinson’s island, in the Savan--nah river, and on the main-land opposite. These lands have been prepared at large expense for the purpose of rice cultivation, and have their chief value because of that fact.…
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