Jackson v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP 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 Valley by reason of the improvement of the Mississippi River under direction of the Federal Commission charged with that work, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice White
This suit was brought to recover from the United States the value of property asserted to have been totally destroyed or rendered completely valueless as the result of certain public work "done in pursuance of the acts of Congress' authorizing it, for the public benefit,' under the. direction- of the Mississippi River Commission and the Secretary of War and the United.States engineers.” And it was charged that under the circumstances stated and the facts alleged, the property had' been taken by the. United- States for public'use “within the meaning of-the constitutional provision,” and it…
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