Court Opinion

ID: 9642804
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 18:09:31.02264+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:10:52.594604
License: Public Domain

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
I agree with the result, and with most of what is said in the majority opinion. I do not agree with what is said, or at least implied in the opinion, that plaintiff had the same right to maintain and use the established drains in connection with the enjoyment of her land not conveyed, after she made her deed to the United States, that she had had before. I think it plain that this will not at all do. For, it makes a nullity of the purchase and leaves the United States and plaintiff, after it had paid and she had received, $5,000, as though nothing had been paid or received. I agree that she may still use the drains but this use is subject to the effect on them of the construction for the purpose of making which the land was sold. Any other view would be to permit her to have her cake and eat it too. I do not, therefore, agree with the majority opinion that United States v. Kelly, supra, is difficult to distinguish from this case, for there the mill owner had made no conveyance, while here, plaintiff had.
This is not to say that plaintiff’s petition would state a cause of action for a taking as to the drainage easements she claims, if it showed that she had not made a deed. That question is not before us. It is to say that on the facts plaintiff pleads, including the making of her deed, no case of taking is made out.