United States Ex Rel. United States Borax Co. v. Ickes

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

This is an appeal from a decree of the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia dismissing the petition of the United States Borax Company, relator-appellant', hereafter referred to as appellant, for a writ of mandamus directing the appellee, Harold L. Iclces, Secretary of the Interior, to cause to be issued and delivered to the appellant a patent of the United States for 80 acres of land in California. The appellant asserted, under the mining laws of the United States, a right of patent to this land as a placer mining location. It appears…