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FEATHER RIVER LUMBER CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 5519.

30 F.2d 642 (1929)

FEATHER RIVER LUMBER CO. v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

February 4, 1929.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. H. Hughes, of Quincy, Cal., and C. E. McLaughlin and McLaughlin & McLaughlin, all of Sacramento, Cal., for appellant.

Geo. J. Hatfield, U. S. Atty., of San Francisco, Cal., and Albert E. Sheets, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Sacramento, Cal. (H. P. Dechant, Asst. Sol., Department of Agriculture, of San Francisco, Cal., of counsel), for the United States.

Before GILBERT and DIETRICH, Circuit Judges, and NORCROSS, District Judge.

GILBERT, Circuit Judge.

The United States brought an action alleging that the defendant carelessly and negligently set and caused to be set a certain fire, which fire it carelessly and negligently allowed to spread upon certain described public lands, to the damage of the plaintiff in the sum of $187,275.58 and the cost of extinguishing the fire, amounting to $2,053.51. The defendant answered placing at issue the material...

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