Loy Ree B. Marlowe Ballam v. The United States

NICHOLS, Senior Circuit Judge.

Appellee Ballam brought this suit in the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina under the “Little Tucker Act,” 28 U.S.C. § 1346(a)(2), claiming “just compensation,” not over $10,000, for erosion of her upland, called by her a “taking” of it, resulting from waves on a portion of the inland waterway (Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway), running across it. This portion, unlike most of the waterway, is artificial, cut by the United States through her land pursuant to an easement so authorizing, granted by her predecessor-in-title in 1931 to South…