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WORK v. CHESTATEE CORP.

No. 401.

267 U.S. 185 (1925)

45 S.Ct. 256

69 L.Ed. 566

WORK, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, v. UNITED STATES EX REL. CHESTATEE PYRITES & CHEMICAL CORPORATION.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 2, 1925.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Merrill E. Otis, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Mr. Solicitor General Beck was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Edgar Watkins, with whom Mr. Hoke Smith and Mr. Mac Asbill were on the brief, for appellee.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal under section 250 of the Judicial Code, par. 6, from a writ of mandamus compelling the Secretary of the Interior to consider and allow a claim of the Chestatee Pyrites & Chemical Corporation, under section 5 of the Dent Act. It presents questions very similar to those heard in Work v. United States ex rel. Rives, just decided, ante, p. 175.

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