Kuhnert v. United States

OTIS, District Judge.

This suit was authorized under a special act of Congress approved August 11, 1939, 53 Stat. 1543. The text of this Act is set out in the margin1. The act was passed in the interest of a number of farmers owning and cultivating lands along the Missouri River near a point where the government had constructed certain dikes and revetments. • The farmers claimed that because of the defective construction and the improper placing of the dikes and revetments a flood resulted which overflowed their lands and damaged and destroyed property belonging to them. The date of the flood…