ALASKA PACIFIC FISHERIES v. UNITED STATES

No. 212.

248 U.S. 78 (1918)

ALASKA PACIFIC FISHERIES v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 9, 1918.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John A. Hellenthal in a brief for appellant.

Mr. C.H. Hanford argued the case for appellant.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Brown for the United States.


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

This is a suit by the United States to enjoin the Alaska Pacific Fisheries, a California corporation, from maintaining, and to compel it to remove, an extensive fish-trap erected by it in navigable waters at the Annette Islands in Alaska. The objections urged against the trap are, first, that it is within a reservation lawfully established for the use of the Metlakahtla...

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