High Bridge Lumber Co. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Kentucky. This was a proceeding by the United States and W. M. Smith, attorney, against the High Bridge Lumber Company for the condemnation of certain lands. Judgment was entered in the district court awarding the defendant $4,750. Defendant brings error. Affirmed.
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In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Kentucky. This was a proceeding by the United States and W. M. Smith, attorney, against the High Bridge Lumber Company for the condemnation of certain lands. Judgment was entered in the district court awarding the defendant $4,750. Defendant brings error. Affirmed. This was ‘an action by the United States for the condemnation of 10,232 acres of land the property of the plaintiff in error, and necessary to the erection and maintenance of a lock and dam for the improvement of the Kentucky river. The proceeding was by…
1Opinion of the CourtLurton, Circuit Judge
Tlie several assignments of error present substantially but one question, and that is, whether the district judge erred originally in instructing the commissioners “not to consider any damages that may result to adjacent property of the defendant by reason of any overflow, or any other damages that may result by the construction or operation of said lock and dam.” The anticipated diversion of the current of the stream from one side of the river to the other, thereby inconveniencing the conduct of the business of the High Bridge Lumber Company, and the anticipated raising of the level of the…
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