SHERRILL v. UNITED STATES

No. 2-63.

381 F.2d 744 (1967)

Charles B. SHERRILL, Mary Y. Sherrill, William L. LaFollette and Susanne H. LaFollette, individually and doing business as Sherrill & LaFollette v. The UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

July 20, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Rehnquist, Phoenix, Ariz., for plaintiffs, James Powers, Phoenix, Ariz., attorney of record.

Herbert Pittle, Washington, D. C., with whom was Asst. Atty. Gen. Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., for defendant.

Before COWEN, Chief Judge, and LARAMORE, DURFEE, DAVIS, COLLINS, SKELTON and NICHOLS, Judges.


COWEN, Chief Judge.*

Plaintiffs are the owners of a tract of land in Arizona located until 1957 on the east bank of the navigable1 Colorado River. Pursuant to the Act of June 28, 1946, ch. 517, 60 Stat. 338, the Government, acting through the Bureau of Reclamation of the Department of the Interior, moved the river channel west to improve navigation. Consequently, plaintiffs' land, instead of fronting on the...

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