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The owner of a well, on land near to but not on the line of the Washington aqueduct, which was destroyed in the construction of that work, may recover its value from the United States in the Court of Claims under the provisions of the Act of July 15, 1882, 22 Stat. 168, c. 294.

Acton v. Blundell, 12 M. & W. 324, distinguished from this case.

The case is stated in the opinion.