Interstate Power Co. v. Anaconda Copper Min. Co.

The following statement, which is in part quoted from appellants’ brief, will be sufficient to illustrate the contentions made herein in their behalf: ‘ ‘ The respondent, plaintiff below, filed in the district court seven actions, numbered 601, 602, *511603, 604, 605, 606 and 608, for the purpose of condemning certain parcels of land along the banks of Clark’s Fork of the Columbia River, in Sanders county, Montana, the said lands to be flooded because of the proposed construction of a dam or dams across the channel of said stream, ‘wherewith to confine and impound the waters of said river,…