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KERN RIVER CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 50.

257 U.S. 147 (1921)

KERN RIVER COMPANY ET AL. v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 21, 1921.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. James A. Gibson, with whom Mr. Roy V. Reppy and Mr. Henry F. Prince were on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Riter, with whom Mr. Leslie C. Garnett and Mr. H.L. Underwood, Special Assistants to the Attorney General, were on the brief, for the United States.

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

A right of way for a canal, several miles in length, through lands of the United States in a public forest reserve, in California, is here in controversy. The right of way was acquired by the Kern River Company, one of the appellants, through the approval by the Secretary of the Interior of an original map of the canal on April 14, 1899, and of an amended map on November 27, 1905. The purpose of the amended...

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