KANSAS CITY LIFE INS. CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 45430.

74 F.Supp. 653 (1947)

KANSAS CITY LIFE INS. CO. v. UNITED STATES.

Court of Claims.

December 1, 1947.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley Bassett annd Ray B. Lucas, both of Kansas City, Mo., for plaintiff.

Ralph S. Boyd, of Washington, D. C., and A. Devitt Vanech, Asst. Atty. Gen. (William H. Churchwell, of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for defendant.

Before JONES, Chief Justice, and MADDEN, HOWELL, LITTLETON and WHITAKER, Judges.


MADDEN, Judge.

The plaintiff sues to recover compensation for harm allegedly done to the plaintiff's interests by the construction by the Government of Lock and Dam No. 26 in the Mississippi River near Alton, Illinois. The suit relates to 1,710 acres of land owned by the plaintiff, lying near the Mississippi River, and bounded on the north by a railroad embankment and on the east, south, and west by a loop levee. Before the construction of Lock and Dam No. 26, the...

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