Legal Opinion
Cotton Land Co. v. United States
United States Court of Claims
Decided January 5, 1948No. 46422PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MADDEN, Judge.
This is a suit by Cotton Land Company, a corporation in liquidation, and several of its stockholders for compensation for land which, the plaintiffs say, the Government has taken from the company by its construction and operation of Parker Dam.
The Company owns some 12,000 acres of land in the Mohave Valley in Arizona. The Colorado River flows through that valley, forming there the common boundary between Arizona and California. The company’s land is about midway in the length of the valley, and its northerly line is 86 miles south of Hoover Dam. . Its southerly line is 53.4…
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