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WORK v. LOUISIANA

No. 5.

269 U.S. 250 (1925)

46 S.Ct. 92

70 L.Ed. 259

WORK, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR v. LOUISIANA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 23, 1925.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. H.L. Underwood, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Solicitor General Beck and Assistant Attorney General Wells were on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. S.L. Herold, with whom Messrs. Percy Saint, Attorney General of Louisiana, and F.W. Clements were on the brief, for appellee.

MR. JUSTICE SANFORD delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a suit in equity brought by the State of Louisiana against the Secretary of the Interior in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, seeking a restraining order and mandatory injunction relating to its prosecution of a swamp land claim under the Acts of March 2, 1849, c. 87, 9 Stat. 352, and September 28, 1850, c. 84, 9 Stat. 519. A motion by the Secretary to dismiss the bill was overruled; and...

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