Jacobs v. United States

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

This was a suit under the Tucker Act, 28 USCA § 41(20). The appellant sought to recover the alleged amount of damage caused by a dam constructed by the appellee under acts of Congress across the bod or channel of the Tennessee river, in Jackson county, Ala., at a location known as “Widow’s Bar,” to a farm owned by appellant and lying along Jones creek, a tributary of the Tennessee river, which darn was about eight miles below that farm and the mouth of Jones creek, and was completed about October 1, 1925. The court’s findings of fact included, in addition to finding's to…