Case ID: us-ct-cl_58/html/0699-02.html
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Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Holmes", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

KEOKUK & HAMILTON BRIDGE COMPANY v. THE UNITED STATES.
    [55 C. Cls. 480; 260 U.S. 125.]
    Judgment was rendered in favor of the United States in the court below. On appeal, the judgment was affirmed, and the Supreme Court decided:
    The court will not reexamine the findings of fact made by the Court' of Claims upon evidence.
    
      An unintentional injury to a bridge pier in the making of navigation improvements by the Government, helé at most in the nature of a tort, and not a taking of property by the United States, for which damages might be recovered on the theory of contract.
   Mr. Justice Holmes

delivered the opinion of the Supreme' Court November 13, 1922.