CRAVENS v. UNITED STATES

Civ. A. Nos. 1358-1360.

163 F.Supp. 309 (1958)

Byron CRAVENS and Thelma Cravens, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant. Owen A. TOMLINSON and Louise Tomlinson, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant. Leon SHIGLEY and Syble Shigley, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant. County of Logan, State of Arkansas, Third-Party Defendant.

United States District Court W. D. Arkansas, Ft. Smith Division.

June 23, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. H. Evans, Booneville, Ark., for plaintiffs.

Chas. W. Atkinson, U. S. Atty., Robert L. Johnson, Asst. U. S. Atty., Ft. Smith, Ark., for the United States.

Luke Arnett, Little Rock, Ark., Ray Blair, Paris, Ark., for Logan County, Ark.


JOHN E. MILLER, District Judge.

Statement

These three actions involve similar fact situations and were consolidated for trial. In each case plaintiffs contend that they are property owners, and that in the spring of 1957 all access to their property was cut off for a period of approximately one month by the waters of Blue Mountain Lake, a lake created by the Government's construction of Blue Mountain Dam on Petit Jean River near the boundary line between...

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