United States v. Archer
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. . Petition in the Court of Claims for the recovery of $300,000 for damages alleged to havp been caused by the officers and agents of tbe United States under the authority of an act' of Congress creating the Mississippi River Commission by the construction and extending of a dike known as the Leland Dike upon the land of petitioners, called the Point Chicot Plantation.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. . Petition in the Court of Claims for the recovery of $300,000 for damages alleged to havp been caused by the officers and agents of tbe United States under the authority of an act' of Congress creating the Mississippi River Commission by the construction and extending of a dike known as the Leland Dike upon the land of petitioners, called the Point Chicot Plantation. A demurrer to the petition was overruled and after answer and hearing judgment was rendered for claimants in the sum of $54,920, to review which this appeal is prosecuted. The findings were…
1DissentJustice Pitney
Being unable to perceive that the facts found by the Court of Claims are in any material respect lacking in certainty, or are inadequate to support the judgment of that court, I am constrained to record my dissent.
*133The salient facts included in the findings are as follows: Claimants’ plantation comprises about 6,000 acres, and includes the whole or the greater part of Point Chicot, on the Arkansas side of the Mississippi River. Point Chicot is a peninsula formed by a sweep of the river, being joined at its southwesterly end to the back land by a narrow neck of comparatively low land, which is…
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