TULELAKE IRRIGATION DISTRICT v. UNITED STATES

No. 445-60.

342 F.2d 447 (1965)

TULELAKE IRRIGATION DISTRICT v. The UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

March 12, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alvin Landis, Sacramento, Cal., for plaintiff.

Herbert Pittle, Washington, D. C., with whom was Asst. Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark, for defendant.

Before COWEN, Chief Judge, and LARAMORE, DAVIS and COLLINS, Judges.


DAVIS, Judge.1

The major question is the interpretation of an ambiguous contract provision allocating costs for the removal of excess water from the Lower Klamath Lake Wildlife Refuge (or Area). The clause first appeared in an agreement entered into, in 1946, between the Bureau of Reclamation and the Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department of the Interior; it was incorporated by reference in a contract dated September 10, 1956, between...

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