Wolfe v. Hurley

Supreme Court of the United States

Argued May 1, 1931.

Decided May 4, 1931.

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1931-05-04

3 counsel of record

Relies on Dohany v. Rogers · Bragg v. Weaver · United States v. Utah

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Decided 1931-05-04

How this case has been cited

Cited by 10 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1979

5 federal appellate ·

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

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¶1Mr. Hugh Tullis, with whom Mr. Charles F. Borah was on the brief, for appellants.

¶2Solicitor General Thacher and Mr. W. Marvin Smith were on the brief for Hurley et al., appellees.

¶3Messrs. Jeff B. Snyder, James H. Gilford, Jr., Philip Watson, and F. G. Hudson, Jr., were on the brief for Board of Commissioners of the Fifth Louisiana Levee District et al., appellees.

¶4Per Curiam:

¶5Decree affirmed. Dohany v. Rogers, 281 U. S. 362, 366; Bragg v. Weaver, 251 U. S. 57, 62; Sweet v. Rechel, 159 U. S. 380, 402; Backus v. Fort Street Union Depot Co., 169 U. S. 557, 568.

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Court

Supreme Court of the United States

Bench at the time

Charles Evans Hughes
Chief Justice
George Sutherland
Associate Justice
Harlan Fiske Stone
Associate Justice
James Clark McReynolds
Associate Justice
Louis Dembitz Brandeis
Associate Justice
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Associate Justice
Owen Josephus Roberts
Associate Justice
Pierce Butler
Associate Justice
Willis Van Devanter
Associate Justice

Counsel

Mr. Hugh Tullis, with whom Mr. Charles F. Borah was on the brief, for appellants.

Solicitor General Thacher and Mr. W. Marvin Smith were on the brief for Hurley et al., appellees.

Messrs. Jeff B. Snyder, James H. Gilford, Jr., Philip Watson, and F. G. Hudson, Jr., were on the brief for Board of Commissioners of the Fifth Louisiana Levee District et al., appellees.