UNITED STATES v. MORRELL

Nos. 7419-7421.

331 F.2d 498 (1964)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. Alton MORRELL, Appellee. UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. Nick CHOURNOS, Appellee (two cases).

United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit.

April 28, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard S. Salzman, Atty., Dept. of Justice (John W. Douglas, Asst. Atty. Gen., William T. Thurman, U. S. Atty., and Alan S. Rosenthal, Atty., Dept. of Justice, with him on the brief), for appellant.

Milton A. Oman, Salt Lake City, Utah, for appellees.

Before BREITENSTEIN, HILL and SETH, Circuit Judges.


BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judge.

The problems of the open range are with us again. Plaintiffs-appellees sued under the Federal Tort Claims Act1 to recover for trespasses on their lands by stock of the holders of permits under the Taylor Grazing Act.2 The claims are that federal officials aided and abetted the trespasses. The government says, among other things, that the officials did no more than issue the permits...

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