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LAFFERTY v. HUMPHREY

No. 13353.

248 F.2d 82 (1957)

A. W. LAFFERTY and Richard L. Merrick, Appellants, v. George M. HUMPHREY, Secretary of the Treasury, et al., and Benton County, Corvallis, Oregon, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided June 13, 1957.

Writ of Certiorari Denied November 12, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. A. W. Lafferty, Portland, Or., Byron N. Scott, Washington, D. C., and Donald C. Walker, Portland, Or., of the bar of the Supreme Court of Oregon, pro hac vice, by special leave of Court, for appellants.

Mr. Paul R. Connolly, for appellee Benton County, Corvallis, Oregon, and certain other appellees. Mr. Harold S. Harrison, Attorney, Department of Justice, with whom Mr. Roger P. Marquis, Attorney, Department of Justice, was on the brief, for appellee George M. Humphrey, Secretary of the Treasury, and certain other appellees.

Before EDGERTON, Chief Judge, and PRETTYMAN and WILBUR K. MILLER, Circuit Judges.

Writ of Certiorari Denied November 12, 1957. See 78 S.Ct. 118.

PRETTYMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit for a class-action attorney fee. It is another step in a long controversy which began in acts of Congress in 1860-1870. The facts are recited in some detail in our opinion in Clackamas County, Or., v. McKay.1 They need not be repeated here.

In our opinion and decision in that case we held that acts of Congress in 1916...

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