Duguid v. Best

291 F.2d 235 James DUGUID and Bertha V. Duguid, Appellants, v. Raymond R. BEST, as State Supervisor, Bureau of Land Management, Walter E. Beck, as Manager, District Land Office, Bureau of Land Management, Richard J. Litten, Chief, Lands Adjudication Unit, Bureau of Land Management, and Joseph E. Taylor, Assistant Regional Solicitor, California Region, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior, Appellees. No. 17092. United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit. May 25, 1961. Chas. L. Cilmore, Sacramento, Cal., for appellants. J. Edward Williams, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., S. Billingsley Hill and A. Donald Mileur, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., Laurence E. Dayton, U.S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., and Floyd R. Mitzner, Asst. U.S. Atty., Sacramento, Cal., for appellees. Before CHAMBERS, JERTBERG and KOELSCH, Circuit Judges. JERTBERG, Circuit Judge. 1 Appellants appeal from a summary judgment dismissing their complaint on the ground that there existed no genuine issue as to a material fact and that appellees were entitled to a judgment as a matter of law. 2 Jurisdiction of the district court is predicated on the alleged presence of a federal question, and upon…