Smith v. Harrah

GRONER, Associate Justice.

Smith, plaintiff below, whom we shall call plaintiff, filed a bill in the Supreme Court of the District against one Charles J. Har-rah, in which he joined as defendants the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury. All the parties are citizens of the United States.

The bill alleges that during 1916, and prior thereto, the defendant Harrah operated in Cuba a railroad primarily for the transportation of sand; that in 1917 or thereabout the railroad was destroyed by the Cuban government, and in 1929 an agreement was entered into between Cuba and the United…