Compania Minera De Jutinicum v. Ickes

VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.

This appeal is from a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia dismissing appellant’s petition for a review of the decision of the Secretary of the Interior disallowing a elaim for alleged losses sustained by appellant, a Cuban corporation, in the production of manganese from mines located in Cuba. The action was brought under the Aet of Congress of February 13,192-9- (45 Stat. 1166).

It appears that on February 16, 1918, an agent of the Bureau of Mines and an agent of the Geological Survey requested claimant company, under authority of section 5 of…