MASSACHUSETTS v. MELLON

No. 24. Original, and No. 962.

262 U.S. 447 (1923)

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS v. MELLON, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, ET AL. FROTHINGHAM v. MELLON, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 4, 1923.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Solicitor General Beck, with whom Mr. Robert P. Reeder, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, was on the brief, for Mellon et al.

Mr. Alexander Lincoln, Assistant Attorney General, with whom Mr. Jay R. Benton, Attorney General, was on the brief, for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Mr. William L. Rawls, with whom Mr. George Arnold Frick and Mr. William H. Lamar were on the brief, for appellant in No. 962.

Mr. J. Weston Allen and Mr. Edwin H. Abbot, Jr., filed a supplemental brief on behalf of appellant in No. 962.

Messrs. Charles I. Dawson, George W. Woodruff, John R. Saunders, Clifford L. Hilton, Russell W. Fleming, S.B. Townsend, Jr., U.S. Lesh, J.S. Utley, John W. Murphy, and C.C. Crabbe, Attorneys General respectively of Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Minnesota, Colorado, Delaware, Indiana, Arkansas, Arizona and Ohio by leave of court, filed a brief as amici curiae, on behalf of those States, in No. 24, Original.

Mr. Charles K. Burdick, by leave of court, filed a brief as amicus curiae on behalf of the Association of Land-Grant Colleges, in No. 24, Original.

Mr. Everett P. Wheeler and Mr. Waldo G. Morse, by leave of court. filed a brief as amici curiae, in both cases.

Mr. Henry St. George Tucker, by leave of court, filed a brief as amicus curiae, in No. 962.


MR. JUSTICE SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court.

These cases were argued and will be considered and disposed of together. The first is an original suit in this Court. The other was brought in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. That court dismissed the bill and its decree was affirmed by the District Court of Appeals. Thereupon the case was brought here by appeal.

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