MASON v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 117, 115, 116, 114, 104, 113, 111, and 112.

260 U.S. 545 (1923)

MASON ET AL. v. UNITED STATES. EUBANK ET AL v. UNITED STATES. MacMULLEN ET AL. v. UNITED STATES. MATTHEWS ET AL. v. UNITED STATES. HUNSICKER ET AL. v. UNITED STATES. NORVELL ET AL. v. UNITED STATES. PALMER ET AL. v. UNITED STATES. ARKANSAS NATURAL GAS COMPANY ET AL. v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 2, 1923.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. R.L. Batts and Mr. S.L. Herold, with whom Mr. D. Edward Greer, Mr. Hampden Story, Mr. J.A. Thigpen and Mr. E.P. Lee were on the briefs, for appellants.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Riter, with whom Mr. Solicitor General Beck and Mr. H.L. Underwood were on the brief, for the United States.


MR. JUSTICE SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court.

These cases, involving the same questions, were consolidated for trial in the District Court as well as for hearing on appeal in the Circuit Court of Appeals and argued together here.

The United States, as plaintiff, brought separate suits in equity in the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana...

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