STATE OF NEVADA v. UNITED STATES

No. 1247.

165 F.Supp. 600 (1958)

The STATE OF NEVADA ex rel. Hugh A. SHAMBERGER, State Engineer, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant.

United States District Court D. Nevada.

August 27, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harvey Dickerson, Atty. Gen. of Nevada, for plaintiff.

J. Lee Rankin, Asst. Atty. Gen., Howard W. Babcock, U. S. Atty., Reno, Nev., for defendant.


ROSS, District Judge.

The question here involved is whether or not the Federal Government must first secure permission of and from a state agency—here the State Engineer's Office—before it can make use of the ground or percolating water developed in its own wells, drilled at its own expense, upon its reserved lands constituting the Hawthorne Naval Ammunition Depot, situate about the Town of Hawthorne, Mineral County, Nevada. Or, to put the question another...

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