Legal Opinion
Barrows v. Hickel
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 17, 1971No. Nos. 25944, 26045PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MERRILL, Circuit Judge:
In 1953 Barrows and his wife posted and filed a location notice, whereby they purported to locate a mining claim for sand and gravel at a site on Grout Creek in the San Bernardino National Forest. The Barrows leased the claim in 1960 to the Big Bear Rock and Materials Company, which, with others, has since operated a large commercial sand and gravel mining and processing plant on the claim.
In 1964 the United States Forest Service initiated an administrative proceeding in the Bureau of Land Management of the Department of the Interior to contest the validity of the…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Utah Power & Light Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1917
- United States v. ColemanSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- United States v. BarrowsCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1968
- United States of America, Cross-Appellee v. Benjamin T. Langendorf, Cross-AppellantsCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1963
3Cited by31 opinions
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- Kenneth Roberts v. Rogers C. B. Morton, Secretary of the Interior, and the Interior Board of Land AppealsCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1977
- Alfred N. Verrue v. United States of AmericaCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1972
- Frank Melluzzo and Wanita Melluzzo v. Rogers C. B. Morton, Secretary of the Department of the Interior of the United States of AmericaCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1976
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