Marret v. United States

The plaintiffs bring this suit to recover just compensation for the alleged taking by the defendant of its lands and buildings erected on the south bank of the Ohio River about six miles above Louisville, Ky. It appears that in 1921 W. F. Woodruff was the owner of a tract of land con*10sisting of about 91 acres bordering on the Ohio Eiver. The descriptions in the original grants give the east and west boundaries as extending to the “bank” of the Ohio River, with the northern boundary following the meanders of the river. The fast land of plaintiffs was at an elevation above mean sea level of…