Pitt River Power Co. v. United States

This case is presented on demurrer. The question is whether the construction plans and activities of the defendant, as alleged, show a taking of plaintiff’s land or an interest therein.

*254Plaintiff alleges that it is now and has been during the period involved the owner of land in the county of Shasta along the Pitt River in California; that the Pitt River is a tributary of the Sacramento River; that on December 2, 1935, the President of the United States, pursuant to the act of June 25,1910 (36 Stat. 630), approved certain findings of fact by the Secretary of the Interior and his recommendation…