Shaw v. Work

VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.

Appellant, plaintiff below, as attorney in fact for one N. R. Waterman, filed a bill in equity in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, seeking a mandatory injunction to compel defendant Hubert Work, as Secretary of the Interior, to vacate, set aside, and hold for naught certain decisions theretofore made relative to certain lands situated in the state of Oregon, which plaintiff sought to select in lieu of lands surrendered to the United States for forest reserve purposes. From a decree' dismissing the bill, plaintiff appealed.

In the year 1900 the land…