Karlson v. United States

SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

These are appeals from three judgments entered upon the verdicts of a jury in a condemnation proceeding brought by the United States.

The United States and Canada, in 1925, entered into a Treaty to regulate the water levels of the Lake of the Woods, which lies partly in Canada and partly in the United States. This Treaty (Lake of the Woods Convention, signed February 24, 1925, proclaimed July 17, 1925, 44 Stat. part 3, p. 2108) provided for lake levels higher than those which existed when the lake was in its natural state. Natural levels had not prevailed since 1898,…