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UNITED STATES EX REL. McLENNAN v. WILBUR

Nos. 618, 676, 704, 743.

283 U.S. 414 (1931)

51 S.Ct. 502

75 L.Ed. 1148

UNITED STATES EX REL. McLENNAN v. WILBUR, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. UNITED STATES EX REL. SIMPSON v. WILBUR, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, ET AL. UNITED STATES EX REL. BARTON v. WILBUR, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. UNITED STATES EX REL. PYRON v. WILBUR, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 18, 1931.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Lewis Edwin Hoffman and Chester I. Long for McLennan.

Mr. Homer Hendricks, with whom Messrs. Donald V. Hunter and James C. Sheppard were on the brief, for Simpson.

Mr. James Conlon, with whom Mr. Charles F. Breen was on the brief, for Barton.

Mr. James G. Leovy, with whom Messrs. John W. Fisher, A.W. Gregg, and Weston Vernon, Jr., were on the brief, for Pyron.

Assistant Attorney General Richardson, with whom Solicitor General Thacher, Messrs. Claude R. Branch and Aubrey Lawrence, Special Assistants to the Attorney General, and Paul D. Miller were on the brief, for respondents.

Messrs. James A. Greenwood, Attorney General of Wyoming, and Clarence L. Ireland, Attorney General of Colorado, with whom Messrs. L.A. Foot, Attorney General of Montana, George P. Parker, Attorney General of Utah, E.K. Neumann, Attorney General of New Mexico, and Peter Q. Nyce were on the brief, as amici curiae, by special leave of Court.

MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the Court.

All these causes turn on the same point of law; the records disclose facts not materially different; one opinion will suffice.

The Act of Congress approved February 25, 1920, 41 Stat. 437, intended to promote certain mining operations, contains thirty-eight sections.

Section 1. "That deposits of coal, phosphate, sodium, oil, oil shale, or gas, and lands containing such deposits owned by the...

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