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GRANT v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 6284, 6285.

192 F.2d 482 (1951)

GRANT et al. v. UNITED STATES. LEWIS et al. v. UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided November 5, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Murray G. James, Wilmington, N. C., and Otto T. Englehart, Washington, D. C., for appellants in No. 6284.

Isaac C. Wright, Wilmington, N. C., for appellants in No. 6285.

S. Billingsley Hill, Atty., Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. (A. Devitt Vanech, Asst. Atty. Gen., John H. Manning, U. S. Atty., Logan D. Howell, Asst. U. S. Atty., Raleigh, N. C., and Roger P. Marquis, Atty., Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellee in Nos. 6284 and 6285.

Before PARKER, Chief Judge, and SOPER and DOBIE, Circuit Judges.

PARKER, Chief Judge.

These are appeals from orders dismissing actions instituted under Private Law 176 of the 81st Congress, 1st Session, 63 Stat. 1143, to recover for damage to oyster beds resulting from the dumping of sewage and laundry waste into the tidal waters in which they are situate. The appellants, plaintiffs in the court below, hold leases of oyster lands from the State of North Carolina,1 upon which they have planted oysters...

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