GLOUCESTER SEAFOOD WORKERS' ASS'N v. HOUSTON


35 F.2d 193 (1929)

GLOUCESTER SEAFOOD WORKERS' ASS'N et al. v. HOUSTON, Commissioner of Fisheries of Virginia, et al.

District Court, E. D. Virginia.

October 9, 1929.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lester S. Parsons, of Norfolk, Va., for complainants.

Leon M. Bazile, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State of Virginia.

Allan D. Jones, of Newport News, Va., for the Commissioner of Fisheries.

J. Boyd Sears, of Mathews, Va., and Catesby G. Jones, of Gloucester, Va., for the planters.

Before PARKER, Circuit Judge, and GRONER and MEEKINS, District Judges.


GRONER, District Judge.

This is a suit begun by Gloucester Seafood Workers' Association, an unincorporated association composed of licensed oyster tongers of Virginia, and S. O. Hoggs and others, also licensed tongers, individually, against the commissioner of fisheries of the state of Virginia, the sheriffs of York and Gloucester counties, Va., and T. J. Blake and others, who have heretofore obtained from the state of Virginia leases on certain oyster grounds in...

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