Hughes v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. The facts, which involve the question of liability of the United States for damages alleged to have been sustained by the owner of a plantation in the Mississippi • River Vfilley by reason of the improvements of the Mississippi River under direction of the Federal Commission charged with that work, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Chiep Justice White
delivered the opinion of the court.
This suit was commenced to recover from'the United States the sum of $200,5(50, subsequently reduced by an amended petition to $165,000, and $12,000 per 'annum until the principal sum was paid on the ground that the United States had as the result of work done by it in relation to the Mississippi River, taken, in the constitutional sense, two certain plantations belonging to the claimant, one the Wigwam plantation situated on the east bank of the Mississippi, and the other a plantation known as the Timberlake plantation also lying on…
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