Jackson v. United States
United States Court of Claims
On the Proofs. The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the essential facts of the case as found by the court: I. The alluvial valley of the Mississippi extends from Girardeau, Mo., on both banks, to the Gulf of Mexico, varying in width from 4 to 40 miles above the mouth of Ned River, and to a much greater distance below.
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On the Proofs. The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the essential facts of the case as found by the court: I. The alluvial valley of the Mississippi extends from Girardeau, Mo., on both banks, to the Gulf of Mexico, varying in width from 4 to 40 miles above the mouth of Ned River, and to a much greater distance below. It is topographically divided into six large basins, of which four are on the west bank and two on the east bank, and into many small basins. The St. Francis Basin extends from Cape Girardeau to Helena, Ark. On the west bank at Helena the White River Basin…
1Opinion of the CourtBooth, J.
The question now before the court arises on claimants’ and defendants’ motion.to amend findings and for a ne-w trial.
This is one of a class of cases involving an alleged taking of private land in the course of the improvement of the Mississippi Biver by the United States in aid of navigation. The original petition was filed in 1894, in which the ad dam-num was stated at $107,257.50. Defendants’ demurrer to this petition was overruled in 1896 (31 C. Cls., 319), since which time three supplemental petitions have been filed increasing the aggregate damages claimed to $569,702.50. The lands of…
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