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JONES v. UNITED STATES

No. 10-58.

175 F.Supp. 182 (1959)

J. W. JONES v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

July 15, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George F. Henry, Jr., Starkville, Miss., for plaintiff.

Kenneth H. Masters, Washington, D. C., with whom was Asst. Atty. Gen. Perry W. Morton, Washington, D. C., for defendant.

WHITAKER, Judge.

Plaintiff sues to recover just compensation for the taking of twelve acres of his land. He alleges that in the construction of a road along the historic Natchez Trace Parkway, running from Nashville, Tennessee, to Natchez, Mississippi, the defendant diverted the natural flow of the surface water, with the result that plaintiff's cultivated field bordering the parkway was inundated and eroded.

Plaintiff's land is located in Webster County,...

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