Hartwig v. United States

The plaintiffs in this taking case are the owner and lessee, respectively, of a tract of land located along the North Platte River in Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska. The river is a non-navigable stream. The plaintiffs are alleging, on their own behalf and on behalf of others similarly situated, that the operation of a series of dams along the North Platte River by the Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation, Department of Interior, during the months of March through June 1971, caused extensive flooding on the river, extending over more than 100 acres of plaintiffs’ land,…