Owen v. United States

OPINION

BRUGGINK, Judge.

This is a suit for compensation for the alleged taking of riverbank property and a *575home by the United States Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps” or “Government”). The action is brought by Mr. William Eugene Owen, in his capacity as executor of the estate of his mother, Mrs. Caroline Payne, who is deceased. Plaintiffs claim is founded upon the fifth amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The specific basis for plaintiffs claim is that the Government “inversely condemned” the land and home of Mrs. Payne when it undertook certain improvements along the Tombigbee…