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WYOMING v. UNITED STATES

No. 257.

255 U.S. 489 (1921)

STATE OF WYOMING ET AL. v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 28, 1921.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John W. Lacey, with whom Mr. William L. Walls, Attorney General of the State of Wyoming, Mr. D.A. Preston, Mr. H.S. Ridgely and Mr. Herbert V. Lacey were on the briefs, for appellants.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Nebeker, with whom Mr. H.L. Underwood, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, was on the brief, for the United States:

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

This is a suit by the United States to establish title in it to eighty acres of land and to the proceeds of oil taken therefrom. The District Court rendered a decree dismissing the bill on the merits, which the Circuit Court of Appeals reversed, 262 Fed. Rep. 675, and the defendants bring the case here.

One of the defendants, the State of Wyoming,

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