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WORK v. BRAFFET

No. 344.

276 U.S. 560 (1928)

WORK, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, v. BRAFFET, ADMINISTRATOR.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 9, 1928.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Solicitor General Mitchell, with whom Messrs. E.O. Patterson, Solicitor, Department of the Interior, and O.H. Graves, Assistant to the Solicitor, were on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. Walter Edmund Burke for respondent.

MR. JUSTICE STONE delivered the opinion of the Court.

Respondent's intestate brought suit in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia for a mandatory injunction compelling the Secretary of the Interior to vacate his decision rejecting an application under R.S. § 2347 for the purchase of certain coal lands included in the school-land grant to Utah, and directing that a patent issue. The case was heard on bill and...

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