City of Tacoma v. Taxpayers of Tacoma

This is the latest episode in litigation beginning in 1948 which has been waged in five tribunals and has produced more than 125 printed pages of administrative and judicial opinions. It concerns the plan of the City of Tacoma, a municipal corporation in the State of Washington, to construct a power project on the Cowlitz River, a navigable water of the United States, in accordance with a *323license issued by the Federal Power Commission under the Federal Power Act.1 The question presented for decision here is whether under the facts of this case the City of Tacoma has acquired federal eminent…