Legal Opinion
Clark v. United States
District Court, D. Oregon
Decided September 8, 1952No. Civ. No. 4420PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JAMES ALGER FEE, Chief Judge.
The United States, in order to house wartime workers in the Kaiser Shipyards, condemned land situated in the Peninsula Drainage District and therein erected the City of Vanport, which was wholly owned by the United States. The location was entirely surrounded by enbankments and was washed on three sides by the floodwaters of the Columbia River. On May 30, 1948, the river, then at a flood height of 29.-6 above mean high water, broke through an embankment and flooded the city, which had a population at that time of some sixteen thousand inhabitants, approximately.…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Clark v. United StatesDistrict Court, D. Oregon · 1952
3Cited by16 opinions
- Marsha Lee Wallin, as Administratrix of the Estate of Carl R. Wallin, Deceased v. Allen Ernest Fuller and Nationwide Mutual Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1973
- Solon B. Clark, Jr., and Geraldine A. Clark, Husband and Wife, and Related Cases v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1954
- Ferguson v. HurfordSupreme Court of Colorado · 1955
- Builders Corporation of America, a Corporation, and Herlong Sierra Homes, Inc., a Corporation v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1958
- Bowers v. GarfieldDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1974
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