Teresa Fromme v. The United States and Victoria County Navigation District, Third-Party

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• recognizing that “two floodings ... cannot be regarded as a taking of a permanent interest of the affected land”
• finding that flooding occurring every fifteen years did not effect a taking
• intervening flooding of private property during government construction of channel and dam did not effect a Fifth Amendment taking due to its temporary nature; post-construction flooding estimated to recur every fifteen years did not satisfy the frequency requirement
• “[0]ne flooding or two floodings of land ... cannot be regarded as a taking of a permanent interest in the affected land.”
• one-time flood with possible 15-year recurrence not sufficient to create an easement for Government

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).