ICKES v. UNITED STATES EX REL. CHESTATEE PYRITES & CHEMICAL CORP.

No. 767.

289 U.S. 510 (1933)

ICKES, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, v. UNITED STATES EX REL. CHESTATEE PYRITES & CHEMICAL CORP.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 29, 1933.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Assistant Attorney General Richardson, with whom Solicitor General Thacher and Mr. Paul D. Miller were on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. Edgar Watkins, with whom Messrs. Mac Asbill, Edgar Watkins, Jr., and Marion Smith were on the brief, for respondent.


MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the Court.

The claim of the Chestatee Pyrites & Chemical Corporation for compensation under the War Minerals Relief Act, March 2, 1919, c. 94, § 5, 40 Stat. 1272, 1274, is here for the fourth time.1 Before the World War the company owned a pyrites mine. In 1918, it made extensive enlargements of its plant at the request of the Secretary of...

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