Iowa-Wisconsin Bridge Co. v. United States

HOWELL, Judge.

The plaintiff sues to recover just compensation for the alleged taking of its property by reason of the construction by the Government of Lock and Dam No. 9 in the Mississippi River 15.5 miles downstream from plaintiff’s property.

In 1928 Congress authorized1 the corporate predecessor of the plaintiff (sometimes hereinafter called the Bridge Com’pany) to construct, maintain and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Mississippi River at or near Lansing, Iowa, to a point opposite in the State of Wisconsin. In 1930 and 1931 the Bridge Company secured the necessary…