UNITED STATES v. WEYERHAEUSER COMPANY

No. 21275.

392 F.2d 448 (1967)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. WEYERHAEUSER COMPANY, a corporation, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied February 28, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William M. Cohen (argued), Land & Natural Resources Div., Dept. of Justice, Roger P. Marquis, Dept. of Justice, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Kenneth E. Roberts (argued), Thomas M. Triplett, of Mautz, Souther, Spaulding, Kinsey & Williamson, Portland, Or., George H. Bonneville (argued), Tacoma, Wash., for appellee.

Before MADDEN, Judge of the United States Court of Claims, and HAMLEY and MERRILL, Circuit Judges.


Amended Opinion

MADDEN, Judge:

The appellee corporation, hereinafter called Weyerhaeuser, sued the United States for damages for the conversion of logs cut and removed from land claimed by Weyerhaeuser to be its land. The only issue in the case is the ownership of the land from which the logs were taken. The district court decided that the land belonged to Weyerhaeuser, and awarded it a money judgment against the...

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