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SMITH v. GOVERNMENT OF VIRGIN ISLANDS

No. 15443.

375 F.2d 714 (1967)

David SMITH, on Behalf of Himself as a Taxpayer and on Behalf of All Other Taxpayers of the Virgin Islands, v. The GOVERNMENT OF the VIRGIN ISLANDS, Mario Lewis as Commissioner of Property and Procurement, and Steadman Hodge, Government of the Virgin Islands and Mario Lewis, Commissioner of Property and Procurement, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided March 23, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter J. O'Dea, Asst. Atty. Gen., Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, V. I., for appellants.

Harry Dreis, St. Thomas, V. I., for appellee.

Before STALEY, Chief Judge, FREEDMAN and COFFIN, Circuit Judges.

Argued at Christiansted January 31, 1967.

OPINION OF THE COURT

FREEDMAN, Circuit Judge:

This appeal raises the important question of the power of the Legislature of the Virgin Islands to authorize the private sale to a designated grantee of a specific plot of land owned by the Government of the Virgin Islands.

In 1961 a plot of land, consisting of 1,010 square feet, at Domini Gade No. 8T, St. Thomas, was escheated to the Government of the...

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