UNITED STATES v. CHICAGO, B. & Q. R. CO.

No. 5964.

90 F.2d 161 (1937)

UNITED STATES v. CHICAGO, B. & Q. R. CO.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

April 12, 1937.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry W. Blair, Asst. Atty. Gen., John J. Boyle, U. S. Atty., of Madison, Wis., and D. B. Hempstead and A. C. Wiprud, Sp. Assts. to the Atty. Gen.

Andrew Lees, of La Crosse, Wis., and Andrew C. Scott and J. C. James, both of Chicago, Ill. (Bruce Scott, of Chicago, Ill., of counsel), for appellee.

Before SPARKS, Circuit Judge, and BRIGGLE and BALTZELL, District Judges.


SPARKS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court assessing damages in condemnation proceedings instituted by the Government with respect to the navigation project of the Mississippi River, authorized by an Act of Congress approved January 21, 1927, 44 Stat. 1010. Two actions at law are involved, and numerous questions are presented, which render necessary a rather full statement of the issues of both causes and the manner in which they...

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