WHITE v. UNITED STATES

No. 12689.

193 F.2d 505 (1951)

WHITE et al. v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 29, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

P. J. Gallagher, Martin P. Gallagher, Ontario, Or., for appellant.

A. Devitt Vanech, Asst. Atty. Gen., Henry L. Hess, U.S. Atty., Portland, Or., William H. Veeder, Sp. Asst. to the Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before HEALY, BONE and POPE, Circuit Judges.


POPE, Circuit Judge.

This was an action by the appellants, owners of a parcel of land in the State of Oregon, against the United States, to recover damages they claim to have suffered when their lands were deprived of water for a period of three weeks in July, 1946, because of breaks in the canal of the Owyhee Irrigation project. The project had been constructed by the United States pursuant to the Reclamation Act of 1902, 32 Stat. 388, as supplemented and amended...

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