LORD & HEWLETT v. UNITED STATES

No. 162.

217 U.S. 340 (1910)

LORD & HEWLETT v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 2, 1910.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr Charles Fuller, with whom Mr. Benjamin F. Tracy and Mr. Paul Fuller were on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. John Q. Thompson, Assistant Attorney General, with whom Mr. George M. Anderson was on the brief, for the United States.


MR. JUSTICE HARLAN, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

This statement of the controlling facts is quite sufficient to show that the judgment below was right. We perceive no ground whatever for a judgment against the United States. Nothing done under the act of March 2d, 1901 created any obligation upon the part of the Secretary of Agriculture, as representing the United States, to proceed...

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