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UNITED STATES v. DERN

No. 677.

289 U.S. 352 (1933)

UNITED STATES EX REL. GREATHOUSE ET AL. v. DERN, SECRETARY OF WAR, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 8, 1933.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Spencer Gordon, with whom Messrs. J. Harry Covington and John Marshall were on the brief, for petitioners.

Mr. Seth W. Richardson, with whom Solicitor General Thacher and Messrs. G.A. Iverson and Erwin N. Griswold were on the brief, for respondents.

MR. JUSTICE STONE delivered the opinion of the Court.

The relators, petitioners here, filed their petition in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia for a writ of mandamus to compel the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers to authorize the construction of a wharf in the Potomac River within the District of Columbia adjacent to their land on the Virginia shore, the construction being forbidden by § 10 of the Act of March 3, 1899, c. 425, 30 Stat...

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