WILBUR v. UNITED STATES

No. 5639.

59 F.2d 887 (1932)

WILBUR, Secretary of the Interior, v. UNITED STATES ex rel. CHESTATEE PYRITES & CHEMICAL CORPORATION.

Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia.

Decided June 6, 1932.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victor H. Wallace, of Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Edgar Watkins and Marion Smith, both of Atlanta, Ga., for appellee.

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


VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.

Appellee corporation filed a petition in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia for a writ of mandamus to compel the Secretary of the Interior to adjust certain of its claims alleged to be allowable under what is known as the War Minerals Relief Act. From an order granting the writ this appeal was taken.

The question here involved is whether or not under the Acts of October 5,...

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