Tenney Telephone Co. v. United States

BALTZELL, District Judge.

This proceeding was begun by the United States of America (hereinafter referred to as the Government) for the purpose of. condemning certain lands and easements in Buffalo county, Wis., to be used in the construction, maintenance, and operation of what is commonly known as Lock and Dam No. 4 in the Mississippi river. It is the intention and purpose of the Government to maintain at all times in the river at that place a nine-foot navigation channel, which calls for a flowage easement up to an elevation of 667 feet above the mean sea level datum, over, across, and…