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283 U.S. 796

Docket No. 306.

Spurrier v. Mitchell Irrigation District

Supreme Court of the United States

Argued April 16, 17, 1931.

Decided April 20, 1931.

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1931-04-20

2 counsel of record

Relies on Zucht v. King · Sugarman v. United States · State of Oklahoma v. State of Texas (United States, Intervener)

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Decided 1931-04-20

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Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently September 2007

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¶1Mr. J. M. Fitzgerald, with whom Mr. L. L. Raymond was on the brief, for appellants. Messrs. Thomas M. Morrow and William Morrow were on the brief for Mitchell Irrigation District, appellee.

¶2Messrs. J. G. Mothersead, Roscoe T. York, Floyd E. Wright, and Wm. H. Wright were on the brief for Gering & Ft. Laramie Irrigation District, appellee.

¶3Per Curiam:

¶4The appeal herein is dismissed for the want of jurisdiction, § 237 (a) Judicial Code, as amended by the Act of February 13, 1925, 43 Stat. 936, 937. Treating the papers whereon the appeal was allowed as a petition for writ of certiorari, as required by § 237 (c) Judicial Code as amended, 43 Stat. 936, 938, certiorari is denied for want of a substantial federal question. Wabash R. Co. v. Flannigan, 192 U. S. 29; Erie R. Co. v. Solomon, 237 U. S. 427; Zucht v. King, 260 U. S. 174; Sugarman v. United States, 249 U. S. 182; C. A. King & Co. v. Horton, 276 U. S. 600; Bank of Indianola v. Miller, 276 U. S. 605; Roe v. Kansas, 278 U. S. 191.

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