PETERSEN v. UNITED STATES

No. 12694.

191 F.2d 154 (1951)

PETERSEN et al. v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

Writ of Certiorari Denied November 26, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edmund G. Brown, Atty. Gen., of California, Bayard Rhone, Deputy Atty. Gen., for appellant State of California.

George, Winkler & Gibbs, Fresno, Cal., for appellants Petersen and others.

Ernest A. Tolin, U. S. Atty., Walter S. Binns, Chief Asst. U. S. Atty., Clyde C. Downing and Max F. Deutz, Asst. U. S. Attys., Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee.

Before DENMAN, Chief Judge, and GOODMAN and BYRNE, District Judges.


Writ of Certiorari Denied November 26, 1951. See 72 S.Ct. 174.

GOODMAN, District Judge.

The question presented on this appeal is whether or not the federal government has exclusive police jurisdiction over certain privately owned land situated entirely within the boundaries of Kings Canyon National Park.

In 1940, the Congress dedicated and set apart as a public park (Kings Canyon National Park) certain tracts of land within the boundaries of Tulare...

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