The Hershey Co. v. S. Woodhouse (WCAB)

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• holding that flooding that rendered a rice plantation an “irreclaimable bog, unfit for the purpose of rice culture or any other known agriculture” was a taking
• flooding of plaintiffs' plantation as a result of congressionally authorized construction of dam gave rise to compensable taking although no specific act of Congress directed the appropriation
• flooding of plaintiffs’ plantation as a result of congressionally authorized construction of dam gave rise to compensa-ble taking although no specific act of Congress directed the appropriation
• overruled on other grounds, United States v. Chicago, M., St. P. & P. R. Co., 312 U. S. 592 (1941)
• overruled on other grounds, United States v. Chicago, M., St. P. & P. R. Co., 312 U. S. 592 (1941)
• If what the officers of the government did, acting under the direction of the government, results in expropriation, it is authorized for the purposes of the Tucker Act.

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