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HUGHES v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 718, 719.

230 U.S. 24 (1913)

HUGHES v. UNITED STATES. UNITED STATES v. HUGHES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 16, 1913.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Waitman H. Conaway for appellant in No. 718 and appellee in No. 719.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General John Q. Thompson and Mr. J. Harwood Graves for the United States.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.

This suit was commenced to recover from the United States the sum of $200,560, subsequently reduced by an amended petition to $165,000, and $12,000 per annum until the principal sum was paid on the ground that the United States had as the result of work done by it in relation to the Mississippi River, taken, in the constitutional sense, two certain plantations belonging...

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