ICKES v. UNDERWOOD

No. 8378.

141 F.2d 546 (1944)

ICKES, as Secretary of the Interior v. UNDERWOOD et al.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia.

Decided March 20, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Jacob N. Wasserman, Chief Counsel, General Land Office, Department of the Interior, of Washington, D. C., with whom Messrs. Warner W. Gardner, Solicitor, and Harry M. Edelstein, Assistant Solicitor, Department of the Interior, both of Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Russell Hardy, of Washington, D. C., for appellees.

Before MILLER and EDGERTON, Associate Justices, and DOBIE, Circuit Judge.


MILLER, Associate Justice.

On November 11, 1933, Donald L. Underwood, for himself and six others — four of whom are, with him, appellees herein — located a placer claim upon an area of 130 acres, with four-fifths of a mile of water front, along the east bank of the Columbia River in the State of Washington, approximately one and one-half miles downstream from the site of the Grand Coulee Dam. The location was intended to cover a sand and gravel deposit...

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