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BISHOP v. UNITED STATES

No. 598-53.

126 F.Supp. 449 (1954)

John L. BISHOP v. The UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

November 30, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Lansden, Cairo, Ill. (John F. Donelan, Washington, D. C., and David V. Lansden, Cairo, Ill., on the briefs), for plaintiffs.

Thomas L. McKevitt, Washington, D. C., with whom was Perry W. Morton, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant.

Before JONES, Chief Judge, and LITTLETON, WHITAKER, MADDEN and LARAMORE, Judges.

WHITAKER, Judge.

In the first count of their petition plaintiffs sue for the alleged taking of their hunting facilities on certain lands in Alexander County, Illinois, as the result of Proclamation No. 2748, executed on October 1, 1947, which denied permission to hunt wild geese on these lands at any time.

In the second count they sue for the destruction of their crops on these lands by the geese, which, they say, was the natural result of the Proclamation...

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