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UNITED STATES v. RIVER ROUGE CO.

No. 3.

269 U.S. 411 (1926)

46 S.Ct. 144

70 L.Ed. 339

UNITED STATES v. RIVER ROUGE IMPROVEMENT COMPANY ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 4, 1926.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Solicitor General Beck and Mr. Alfred Lucking, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Mr. Howell Van Auken, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, was on the brief, for the United States.

Messrs. Selden Dickinson and Charles A. Wagner, with whom Messrs. Henry M. Campbell and Elliott G. Stevenson were on the brief, for defendants in error.

Mr. Paul B. Moody filed a supplemental brief for defendants in error, Forman Company and Ramsby.

MR. JUSTICE SANFORD delivered the opinion of the Court.

Pursuant to an appropriation for the improvement of the Rouge River, Michigan, made in the Rivers and Harbors Act of August 8, 1917,1 the United States filed in the District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan five petitions for the condemnation of numerous parcels of riparian land needed for such improvement, and, also, of a gas main...

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