PORTSMOUTH HARBOR LAND & HOTEL COMPANY v. UNITED STATES

No. 381.

250 U.S. 1 (1919)

PORTSMOUTH HARBOR LAND & HOTEL COMPANY ET AL. v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 19, 1919.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John Lowell, with whom Mr. Frank W. Hackett was on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Brown, with whom Mr. Charles H. Weston was on the brief, for the United States.


Memorandum opinion by THE CHIEF JUSTICE.

Recovery was sought in the court below from the United States for property taken by it as the result of the alleged firing of guns in a fortification on the coast of Maine and the passing of the projectiles over and across a portion of the land alleged to have been taken. The court finding that a former case by it decided against the owners and here affirmed (Peabody v. United...

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