MOSES LAKE HOMES v. GRANT COUNTY

No. 212.

365 U.S. 744 (1961)

MOSES LAKE HOMES, INC., ET AL. v. GRANT COUNTY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 17, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lyle L. Iverson argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioners.

Paul A. Klasen, Jr. argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was Jennings P. Felix.

Solicitor General Rankin, Assistant Attorney General Rice and I. Henry Kutz filed a brief for the United States, as amicus curiae, urging reversal.


MR. JUSTICE WHITTAKER delivered the opinion of the Court.

Among their various contentions, petitioners sought our writ of certiorari on the ground that, although finding that the State of Washington had discriminatorily, and therefore unconstitutionally, valued and taxed their federal Wherry Act leaseholds, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, nevertheless, sustained and enforced those taxes. 276 F.2d 836. We granted the writ...

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