Gibson v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters statement of the case.’. The following are the facts of this case as found by the court: I. In the year 1885, and before, the claimant was the owner in her own right and in possession of a tract of land containing about 20 a¡cres, situate on Neville Island, in the Ohio Eiver, 9 miles below the city of Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania. II.
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The Reporters statement of the case.’. The following are the facts of this case as found by the court: I. In the year 1885, and before, the claimant was the owner in her own right and in possession of a tract of land containing about 20 a¡cres, situate on Neville Island, in the Ohio Eiver, 9 miles below the city of Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania. II. The claimant’s land, at the time of the alleged grievance, was in a high state of cultivation, well improved with a good dwelling house, barn, and other outbuildings. The claimant was in the year 1885, and is now,…
1Opinion of the CourtWeldon, J.
In this proceeding it is sought to recover damages because of the construction of a dike by the defendants in the Ohio Biver, at a point off Nevelle Island, about nine miles west of the city of Pittsburg.
Congress, by the River and Harbor Acts of July 5,1884 (23 Stat. L., 133, 147) and Augtist 5, 1886 (24 Stat. L., 310 327), authorized an improvement in the Ohio Biver, by the appropriation of nine hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. In the expenditure of a part of that money the agents of the defendants, in June, 1885, commenced the construction of a dike, 2,200 feet in length, to…
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