Ickes v. Virginia-Colorado Development Corp.

MARTIN, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal of the Secretary of the Interior from a decree of mandatory injunction requiring him to vacate a decision promulgated by him whereby certain oil shale placer claims of the appellee were declared to he null and void.

The appellee, the Virginia-Colorado Development Corporation, as plaintiff below and hereinafter called the plaintiff, filed its bill below praying for an injunction against the appellant upon allegations in substance as follows:

That in June, 1917, the plaintiff, under the mining laws then in force, located certain oil shale plaeer claims in…