Legal Opinion

Yazel v. United States

United States Court of Claims

Decided December 5, 1950No. 47895PublishedCited by 16 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

HOWELL, Judge.

The plaintiffs sue to recover the amount of $14,440 representing damages for the loss of certain of their lands and damage to portions thereof alleged to have been the result of the defendant’s construction of a levee on the south bank of the Kansas River for the protection of a pipe line intake leading to the Sunflower Ordnance Plant.

The land in question is located in Leavenworth County, ■ State of Kansas, on the north bank of the Kansas River. The course of the river as it approaches ‘plaintiffs’ land is almost directly north to a point in the adjoining township where, after…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Manigault v. SpringsSupreme Court of the United States · 1905
  2. Gibson v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
  3. Sanguinetti v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1924
  4. Bedford v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1904
  5. John Horstmann Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1921

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3Cited by16 opinions

  1. William Eugene Owen, as of the Estate of Caroline Pearson Payne v. The United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 1988
  2. Deltona Corp. v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1981
  3. B Amusement Co. v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1960
  4. Loesch v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1981
  5. Marina N. Oswald Porter, Individually, Etc. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1973

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