Work v. United States ex rel. Peale

VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.

This appeal is to review the action of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, wherein a writ of mandamus was issued requiring appellants, defendants below, to execute and issue a relinquishment and quitclaim to certain forest reserve lands conveyed to the United States in consideration of the right to make a lieu land selection.

This case was here on a former appeal, Peale v. Davis et al., 57 App. D. C. 221, 19 F.(2d) 695, in which we affirmed the decision of the Supreme Court of the District in dismissing the bill for a mandatory injunction to compel the…