United States v. City and County of San Francisco

ROCHE, District Judge.

This is a suit in equity wherein the United States of America, as plaintiff, seeks to restrain the City and County of :San" Francisco, as defendant, from continuing an activity which is • alleged to be in violation of a restriction attached to a grant of lands by the plaintiff to the defendant. The grant is known as the Raker Act (38 Stat. 242), passed by Congress on December 19, 1913. The restriction in question, contained in section 6 of the act, 38 Stat. 245, reads as follows: “That the grantee is prohibited from ever selling or letting to any corporation or…