WORK v. RIVES

No. 272.

267 U.S. 175 (1925)

WORK, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR v. UNITED STATES EX REL. RIVES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 2, 1925.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Merrill E. Otis, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Mr. Solicitor General Beck was on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Leslie C. Garnett, with whom Mr. Burgess W. Marshall was on the brief, for defendant in error.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal under section 250 of the Judicial Code, par. 6, from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, affirmed by the Court of Appeals, granting a mandamus compelling the Secretary of the Interior to consider and allow a claim for net losses suffered by Logan Rives, the relator, in producing and preparing to produce manganese at the instance of the Government for war purposes...

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