Case ID: us-ct-cl_59/html/0955-03.html
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Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Sutherland", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STEFANO SANGUINETTI v. THE UNITED STATES
    [55 C. Cls. 107; 264 U. S. 146]
    Judgment was rendered in the court below in favor of the United States. On appeal the judgment was affirmed, and the Supreme Court decided:
    A canal, constructed by the Government to improve navigation, overflowed intermittently, flooding the claimant’s land but not ousting him from his customary user, except for brief periods, or inflicting permanent injury; and it did not appear either Government or its offleers, or that it was attributable directly, in whole or in part, to the improvement, rather, than to natural conditions. Held, that no taking could be implied, and the Un'ted States was not liable ex contractu.
    
   Mr. Justice Sutherland

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court February 18, 1924.