Cotton Land Co. v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a taking was found where construction-and operation of a dam initiated a series of events that led to a flooding of the plaintiffs property
• rejecting a defense that the cause of the taking was too remote
• governmental unit that built a dam had to compensate plaintiff when, due to the damming, the river flow rate slowed and silt built up, eventually resulting in flooding of plaintiffs property
• flooding of landowner's property due to government’s dam construction
• flooding of landowner's property due to government's dam construction
• flooding of landowner’s property due to government’s dam construction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).