CHESAPEAKE WESTERN RY. v. JARDINE

No. 4215.

8 F.2d 794 (1925)

CHESAPEAKE WESTERN RY. et al. v. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.

Court of Appeals of District of Columbia.

Decided November 2, 1925.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. M. Hudson, of Washington, D. C., for appellants.

H. L. Underwood, of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before MARTIN, Chief Justice, and ROBB and VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justices.


MARTIN, Chief Justice.

The appellants, as plaintiffs, filed a petition in the lower court against the Secretary of Agriculture, alleging therein that the United States is owner of a certain large forest reservation in the state of Virginia through which the North river flows; that the plaintiffs are lower riparian owners, and the said reservation is an upper riparian property upon the North river; that the defendant was authorized by statute to execute and cause to...

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