Portsmouth Harbor Land & Hotel Co. v. United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• opining that “[e]very successive trespass adds to the force of the evidence” for a taking
• government assertion of a right to fire coastal defense guns across private property would consti- tute a taking
• landowner could sue for taking without just compensation, in connection with Army guns fired over property; argument that Army officers lacked authority to appropriate land rejected as irrelevant, since Army officers had authority to fire guns
• “[W]hile a single act may not be enough, a continuance of them in sufficient number and for a sufficient time may prove [the intent to take property]. Every successive trespass adds to the force of the evidence.”
• easement for firing cannonballs over plaintiffs’ property
• same; military gunfire over plaintiff’s land

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).