United States v. Iva May Harvey, a Widow

TANG, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal by 162 individuals from a judgment ejecting them from approximately 27 acres of real property, Harvey’s Fishing Hole, and awarding the government rental value -damages for use and occupancy of this property since I960. 1 Three issues are before us: 1) whether state rather than federal law should have been applied in the jury instruction on the question of accretion; 2) whether substantial evidence supported the jury verdict that Harvey’s Fishing Hole was formed by accretion rather than avulsion; 3) whether the United States was estopped from asserting its…