URE v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 3669 to 3853, 3861 to 3865, 3871, 3855, 3870.

93 F.Supp. 779 (1950)

URE et al. v. UNITED STATES (two cases). WHITE et al. v. UNITED STATES. FINE SHEEP CO. v. UNITED STATES.

United States District Court D. Oregon.

March 13, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gallagher & Gallagher, Ontario, Or., Robert D. Lytle, Roy Kilpatrick, Vale, Or., for plaintiffs.

Henry L. Hess, U. S. Atty., Portland, Or., William H. Veeder, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., for defendant.


JAMES ALGER FEE, Chief Judge.

The present opinion concerns the responsibility of the United States to one hundred ninety-three landowners, served by the Owyhee Canal, based on two different type claims arising because of the breaking of the canal, which was under government control. The first class relates to damages on account of the failure to deliver water because of the break, whereby crops were lost. The second class relates to direct trespass of the water upon...

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