Matthews v. United States

If there has been a taking by the United States under the Fifth Amendment to the Federal Constitution of any property or valuable property rights of plaintiff in and to any of the 20,064.69 acres of timber land involved in this controversy for which a contract to pay just compensation may be implied, such taking must be held to have resulted solely and exclusively from the declared purpose of the United States as expressed in the Act of May 15, 1928, herein referred to as the Flood Control Act, to reduce the height of the riverside levee whenever that should be found to be necessary after the…