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TEMPEL V. UNITED STATES, 248 U. S. 121 (1918)
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Tempel v. United States, 248 U.S. 121 (1918)
Tempel v. United States
No. 29
Argued November 5, 1917
Decided December 9, 1918
248 U.S. 121
Syllabus
Not knowing that certain land on the Chicago River had become submerged through excavations privately made without the owner's consent, the government, believing it to be within the de jure stream, chanrobles.com-red
and not intending to exercise the power of eminent domain, dredged the submerged land, claiming then and thereafter that it did so under the power to improve navigation. Held that there was no ground for implying a promise to compensate the owner, that his cause of action, if any, was in tort, and that an action by him against the United States was not within the jurisdiction of the district court under the Tucker Act. Hill v. United States, 149 U. S. 53, followed. United States v. Lynah, 188 U. S. 445, and United States v. Cress, 243 U. S. 316, distinguished. P. 248 U. S. 128.
Reversed.
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