JACOBS v. UNITED STATES

No. 5852.

45 F.2d 34 (1930)

JACOBS v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied December 19, 1930.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. A. Kelly, of South Pittsburgh, Tenn., and Chas. C. Moore, of Chattanooga, Tenn., for appellant.

C. B. Kennamer, U. S. Atty., of Birmingham, Ala. and R. M. Sims, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Florence, Ala.

Before BRYAN and WALKER, Circuit Judges, and HOLMES, District Judge.


WALKER, Circuit Judge.

This was a suit under the Tucker Act, 28 USCA § 41(20). The appellant sought to recover the alleged amount of damage caused by a dam constructed by the appellee under acts of Congress across the bed or channel of the Tennessee river, in Jackson county, Ala., at a location known as "Widow's Bar," to a farm owned by appellant and lying along Jones creek, a tributary of the Tennessee river, which dam was about eight miles below that farm and...

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