Creech v. United States

The claims made by plaintiffs in the petitions filed, for loss and damage to their crops in December 1937, are that during each winter season the area in question is usually and normally visited by one or more periods in which the wind blows over Lake Okeechobee from the North or Northwest at the rate of 20 to 35 miles per hour, or more, causing slight wind tides along the Southern border of the lake varying with the height of the lake and the intensity of the wind; that prior to the construction of the levee by the defendant, and at the high stages of the lake, these wind tides were…