UNITED STATES v. HUMBOLDT LOVELOCK IRR. LIGHT & P. CO.

No. 8695.

97 F.2d 38 (1938)

UNITED STATES (PERSHING COUNTY WATER CONSERVATION DIST. OF NEVADA et al., Interveners) v. HUMBOLDT LOVELOCK IRR. LIGHT & POWER CO.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

May 31, 1938.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl McFarland, Asst. Atty. Gen., C. W. Leaphart, Clifford E. Fix, and W. D. Donnelly, Attys., Department of Justice, all of Washington, D. C., E. P. Carville, U. S. Atty., of Reno, Nev., and Roy W. Stoddard, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., for the United States.

Prince A. Hawkins, Robert Z. Hawkins, and Hawkins, Mayotte, & Hawkins, all of Reno, Nev., and Clarence M. Hawkins, of Oakland, Cal., for appellee.

Before GARRECHT, HANEY, and STEPHENS, Circuit Judges.


HANEY, Circuit Judge.

Appeal is taken from an order dismissing a bill of complaint filed by the United States, hereinafter referred to as appellant, and its motion for an injunction pendente lite.

In what is called the "arid state" of Nevada "there are but four small streams that pretend to flow for a comparatively short distance continuously throughout the year, one being the Humboldt River, whose supply of water is utilized to the greatest possible extent...

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