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HERKNESS v. IRION

No. 3.

278 U.S. 92 (1928)

49 S.Ct. 40

73 L.Ed. 198

HERKNESS v. IRION, COMMISSIONER OF CONSERVATION, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 19, 1928.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John W. Davis, with whom Messrs. Maurice B. Saul, Joseph N. Ewing, Allen S. Olmsted, 2d, and Esmond Phelps were on the brief, for appellant.

Messrs. Percy Saint, Attorney General of Louisiana, W.H. Thompson, Assistant Attorney General, and Edward Rightor submitted for appellees.

MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the Court.

This suit was brought in a federal court for Louisiana by Herkness, an owner of natural gas wells, to enjoin the Commissioner of Conservation and the Attorney General of that State from interfering with the erection, on plaintiff's land, and the operation, of a factory for the manufacture of carbon black from natural gas. The bill alleges that a number of other persons...

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