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RICHFIELD OIL CORPORATION v. UNITED STATES

No. 513-55.

151 F.Supp. 333 (1957)

RICHFIELD OIL CORPORATION v. The UNITED STATES. The Los Angeles County Flood Control District, Third Party Defendant, and Robert C. Kirkwood, controller of the State of California, and Harvey O. Banks, Director of the Department of Water Resources of the State of California, Third Party Defendants.

United States Court of Claims.

May 8, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edmund G. Brown, Atty. Gen., and B. Abbott Goldberg, Deputy Atty. Gen., on the briefs for the third party defendants, Robert C. Kirkwood and Harvey O. Banks.

Harold W. Kennedy, County Counsel, Los Angeles, Cal., on the brief for the third party defendant, Los Angeles County Flood Control District.

Before JONES, Chief Judge, and LITTLETON, WHITAKER, MADDEN and LARAMORE, Judges.

MADDEN, Judge.

The plaintiff sues for the value of an oil pipeline and the right of way for the pipeline, claiming that the Government took these properties when it, in the construction of a flood control project required the removal of a railroad bridge to which the plaintiff's pipeline was attached, and thus compelled the plaintiff to remove and relocate its pipeline.

The Government denies liability to the plaintiff and asserts, as affirmative defenses,...

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