Legal Opinion
Bishop v. United States
United States Court of Claims
Decided November 30, 1954No. 598-53PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WHITAKER, Judge.
In the first count of their petition plaintiffs sue for the alleged taking of their hunting facilities on certain lands in Alexander County, Illinois, as the result of Proclamation No. 2748, executed on October 1, 1947, which denied permission to hunt wild geese on these lands at any time.
In the second count they sue for the destruction of their crops on these lands by the geese, which, they say, was the natural result of the Proclamation and amounted to a taking by the defendant.
By the Migratory Bird Treaty of 1916, 39 Stat. 1702, the United States and Great Britain agreed to…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Bowles v. WillinghamSupreme Court of the United States · 1944
- Missouri v. HollandSupreme Court of the United States · 1920
- Geer v. ConnecticutSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- Hamilton v. Kentucky Distilleries & Warehouse Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1919
- Phelps v. . RaceyNew York Court of Appeals · 1875
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Miller v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1980
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- Collopy v. Wildlife Commission, Department of Natural ResourcesSupreme Court of Colorado · 1981
- The Tlingit and Haida Indians of Alaska and Harry Douglas, Intervenors v. The United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1968
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