Supreme Court of the United States March 6, 1893, 467 (United States v. Truesdell)

Me. Justice Siiiras

delivered the opinion of the court.

This suit was brought in the Court of Claims to recover damages for the loss of a well, occasioned by the construction of an extension of the Washington Aqueduct, and for compensation for a right of way across land of the complainant, taken for the purpose of constructing a tunnel, by virtue of an act of Congress of July 15, 1882, entitled