COTTON LAND CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 46422.

75 F.Supp. 232 (1948)

COTTON LAND CO. et al. v. UNITED STATES.

Court of Claims.

January 5, 1948.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard A. Diether, of Los Angeles, Cal. (Binford & Binford and Cosgrove, Clayton, Cramer & Diether, all of Los Angeles, Cal., on the brief), for plaintiffs.

Marvin J. Sonosky, of Washington, D. C., and A. Devitt Vanech, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant.

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


MADDEN, Judge.

This is a suit by Cotton Land Company, a corporation in liquidation, and several of its stockholders for compensation for land which, the plaintiffs say, the Government has taken from the company by its construction and operation of Parker Dam.

The Company owns some 12,000 acres of land in the Mohave Valley in Arizona. The Colorado River flows through that valley, forming there the common boundary between Arizona and California. The company...

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