STEWART v. UNITED STATES

No. 848.

316 U.S. 354 (1942)

62 S.Ct. 1154

86 L.Ed. 1529

STEWART ET AL. v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 25, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Robert L. Lipman and Allan P. Matthew, with whom Messrs. J.M. Mannon, Jr. and A. Crawford Greene were on the brief, for petitioners.

Mr. Richard H. Demuth, with whom Solicitor General Fahy, Assistant Attorney General Littell, and Messrs. Oscar A. Provost, H.G. Ingraham, and Philip Buettner were on the brief, for the United States.


MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a suit by the United States to quiet its title to a large area of tule marsh lands lying northwest of the Mare Island Navy Yard in San Pablo Bay in California. United States v. O'Donnell, 303 U.S. 501, was a similar suit to quiet the Government's title to marsh lands lying between the high land on which the Navy Yard...

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