SIX COMPANIES v. STINSON

No. G-191.

58 F.2d 649 (1932)

SIX COMPANIES, Inc., v. STINSON, State Inspector of Mines, et al.

District Court, D. Nevada.

April 28, 1932.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe and Thelen & Marrin, all of San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff.

Gray Mashburn, Atty. Gen., of Nevada, and W. T. Mathews, Dep. Atty. Gen., for defendants.

Richard J. Coffey, Dist. Counsel, Bureau of Reclamation, of Los Angeles, Cal., and H. H. Atkinson, U. S. Atty., of Reno, Nev., amici curiæ.

Before WILBUR and SAWTELLE, Circuit Judges, and NORCROSS, District Judge, as a Statutory Court.


NORCROSS, District Judge.

This is an action to enjoin defendants from interfering with plaintiff's use of gasoline propelled trucks in the driving of certain tunnels upon the Nevada side of the Colorado river in the carrying out of its contract with the United States for the construction of Hoover Dam.

At the point where the dam is to be erected, the Colorado river flows through a narrow precipitous canyon, the sides of which are of solid rock, and the depth...

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