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UTAH POWER & LIGHT CO. v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 202-207.

243 U.S. 389 (1917)

UTAH POWER & LIGHT COMPANY v. UNITED STATES. UNITED STATES v. UTAH POWER & LIGHT COMPANY. BEAVER RIVER POWER COMPANY v. UNITED STATES. UNITED STATES v. BEAVER RIVER POWER COMPANY. NUNN ET AL. v. UNITED STATES. UNITED STATES v. NUNN ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 19, 1917.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William V. Hodges and Mr. Graham Sumner, for the Utah Power & Light Co.

Mr. Clyde C. Dawson and Mr. Frank H. Short, with whom Mr. Frank J. Gustin, Mr. Charles A. Gillette, Mr. Dean F. Brayton and Mr. H.R. Waldo were on the briefs, for the Beaver River Power Company and Nunn et al.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Knaebel for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the court.

We are concerned here with three suits by the United States to enjoin the continued occupancy and use, without its permission, of certain of its lands in forest reservations in Utah as sites for works employed in generating and distributing electric power, and to secure compensation for such occupancy and use in the past. The reservations were created by executive...

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