Legal Opinion
Schiefelbein v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided January 13, 1942No. 11899PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OTIS, District Judge.
The chief question presented is: When the United States, exercising the power of eminent domain, severs a public highway by taking land and so destroys the only access a person has to property he owns, is that person entitled to compensation ?
Appellant, Fay H. Schiefelbein (appellant Verna Schiefelbein is his wife), owned, in Iowa, 700 acres in a triangularly shaped tract along two sides and about the apex of which the Missouri River flowed in a sharp curve. To shorten the river, in aid of navigation, the United States condemned a strip of land and cut a new channel at…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- United States v. WelchSupreme Court of the United States · 1910
- Union Electric Light & Power Co. v. Snyder Estate Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1933
- Culver v. ConverseSupreme Court of Iowa · 1929
- McCann v. Clarke CountySupreme Court of Iowa · 1910
- Prymek v. Washington CountySupreme Court of Iowa · 1941
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Whitman v. State Highway Commission of MissouriDistrict Court, W.D. Missouri · 1975
- Steve Winn and Edith Winn v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1959
- United States v. 9,947.71 Acres of Land, More or Less, in County of Clark, State of NevadaDistrict Court, D. Nevada · 1963
- Cravens v. United StatesDistrict Court, W.D. Arkansas · 1958
- United States v. 45.50 Acres of LandCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1980
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