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UNITED STATES v. MOREHART

No. 24992.

449 F.2d 1283 (1971)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. Roger Lytle MOREHART, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

August 27, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George E. Wise (argued), of Wise, Kilpatrick & Clayton, Long Beach, Cal., for appellant.

George R. Hyde (argued), Lands Div., Shiro Kashiwa, Washington, D. C., Robert Meyer, U. S. Atty., Thomas H. Coleman, Asst. U. S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff and appellee.

Before CHAMBERS and KOELSCH, Circuit Judges, and FREY, District Judge.

CHAMBERS, Circuit Judge:

Morehart had "signed up" for some agricultural conservation money. He was to clear some of his land of brush. The government would pay him part of his cost.

While clearing the land, Morehart's mechanical equipment used in the process started a fire.1 The forest service, with its own forces and the help of a municipal fire department, put out the fire on Morehart's ranch before it reached the adjoining national...

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