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IOWA-WISCONSIN BRIDGE CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 46079.

84 F.Supp. 852 (1949)

IOWA-WISCONSIN BRIDGE CO. et al. v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

July 11, 1949.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred A. Ontjes, Mason City, Iowa (Wm. C. Green, St. Paul, Minn., on the brief), for plaintiff.

Marvin J. Sonosky, Washington, D. C., and A. Devitt Vanech, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the defendant.

Before JONES, Chief Judge, and LITTLETON, WHITAKER, MADDEN and HOWELL, Judge.

HOWELL, Judge.

The plaintiff sues to recover just compensation for the alleged taking of its property by reason of the construction by the Government of Lock and Dam No. 9 in the Mississippi River 15.5 miles downstream from plaintiff's property.

In 1928 Congress authorized1 the corporate predecessor of the plaintiff (sometimes hereinafter called the Bridge Company) to construct, maintain and operate a bridge and approaches thereto...

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