CHALK v. UNITED STATES

No. 4627.

114 F.2d 207 (1940)

CHALK, Commissioner of Game and Inland Fisheries, et al. v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

August 30, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Y. Jordan, Jr., of Asheville, N. C., and L. O. Gregory, Asst. Atty. Gen. of North Carolina (Harry McMullan, Atty. Gen. of North Carolina, and J. M. Horner, Jr., of Asheville, N.C., on the brief), for appellants.

Marvin J. Sonosky, of Washington, D. C., Atty., Department of Justice (Norman M. Littell, Asst. Atty. Gen., James O. Carr, U. S. Atty., of Wilmington, N. C., John Hall Manning, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Raleigh, N. C., and Charles R. Denny, of Washington, D. C., Atty., Department of Justice, on the brief), for appellee.

Peyton Randolph Harris, of New York City, for Campfire Club of America, amicus curiae.

M. M. Redden, of Hendersonville, N. C., for North Carolina Hunters' and Fishers' Ass'n, Inc., amicus curiae.

Thomas Read, Atty. Gen. of Michigan, for the State of Michigan, amicus curiae.

Before PARKER, SOPER, and NORTHCOTT, Circuit Judges.


NORTHCOTT, Circuit Judge.

This is a civil suit brought by the appellee, United States of America, here referred to as the plaintiff, in March, 1939, in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of North Carolina, at Raleigh, against the appellants, J. D. Chalk, Commissioner of Game and Inland Fisheries, of the State of North Carolina, and E. B. Kugler, J. A. Bradshaw, J. H. Longshore, Seaman S. Whittaker and C. N. Mease, State Officials under...

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