OLSON v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 9279-9281.

67 F.2d 24 (1933)

OLSON v. UNITED STATES. KARLSON v. SAME. BREWSTER v. SAME.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

August 17, 1933.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

I. K. Lewis, of Duluth, Minn. (John H. Hougen, of Crookston, Minn., C. E. Berkman, of Chisholm, Minn., and Lewis, Hunt & Palmer, of Duluth, Minn., on the brief), for appellants.

Henry N. Benson and Chester S. Wilson, both of St. Paul, Minn., for the State of Minnesota.

Donald D. Harries, Sp. Asst. U. S. Atty., of Duluth, Minn. (Lewis L. Drill, U. S. Atty., of St. Paul, Minn., and D. N. Lindeman, of Duluth, Minn., Atty. for United States War Department, on the brief), for the United States.

John E. Read, of Ottawa, Canada, K. C. for the Government of Canada.

Before STONE and BOOTH, Circuit Judges, and WYMAN, District Judge.


STONE, Circuit Judge.

These are three separate appeals by landowners from judgments awarding damages in a condemnation proceeding prosecuted by the United States against the lands of each.

These lands border the Lake of the Woods, which is a large body of water partly in the state of Minnesota and partly in Canada. The surface area of the lake is approximately 1,500 square miles with its outlet, by the Winnipeg river, in Canada. There are natural water power...

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