Legal Opinion
United States v. Miller
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 4, 1943No. 78PublishedCited by 1,208 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Roberts
This case presents important questions respecting standards for valuing property taken for public use. For this reason, and because of an apparent conflict with one of our decisions, we granted certiorari.
The United States condemned a strip across the respondents’ lands for tracks of the Central Pacific Railroad, relocation of which was necessary on account of the prospective flooding of the old right-of-way by waters to be impounded by the Central Valley Reclamation Project in California. For many years a proposal to initiate state reclamation works in this vicinity had been before the…
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