Work v. United States Ex Rel. Chestatee Pyrites & Chemical Corp.

This is an appeal under section 250 of the Judicial Code, par. 6, from, a writ of mandamus compelling the Secretary of the Interior to consider and allow a claim of the ,Ches-tatee Pyrites & Chemical Corporation, under section 5 of the Dent Act. It presents questions very similar to those heard in Work v. United States ex rel. Rives, just decided, ante, p. 175.

The relator owned a pyrites mine before the war. In compliance with the request of the Government to enlarge its plant to meet the war necessities, it borrowed the sum of $695,000, on which it obligated itself to pay interest at the…