Legal Opinion
Work v. United States Ex Rel. McAlester-Edwards Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 21, 1923No. 258PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Taft
Two questions are to be decided in this case. The first is under what appraisement the preferential right conferred on the relator by the second section of the Act of 1918 to purchase the surface previously reserved to it by the Secretary of the Interior, was to be exercised. Should it have been under that of the Act of 1912, or under that ordered by the Secretary after the Act of 1918? The second question is whether the construction necessary to determine the first question is vested by the statute in the legal discretion of the Secretary which it is not within the power of the Supreme Court…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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