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WEST v. STANDARD OIL CO.

No. 71.

278 U.S. 200 (1929)

49 S.Ct. 138

73 L.Ed. 265

WEST, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, v. STANDARD OIL COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 2, 1929.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. W. Carr Morrow for petitioner.

Messrs. Oscar Sutro and Louis Titus, with whom Messrs. Frederic D. McKenney and J. Spaulding Flannery were on the brief, for respondent.

MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the Court.

This suit was brought in October, 1925, by the Standard Oil Company in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia against Dr. Work, the then Secretary of the Interior, to enjoin the continuation of proceedings in the local land office at Visalia, California, ordered by him with a view to ascertaining and determining whether particular lands were known to be mineral...

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