Humboldt Placer Mining Company v. Best

293 F.2d 553 HUMBOLDT PLACER MINING COMPANY, a corporation, and Del De Rosier, Appellants, v. Raymond R. BEST, as State Supervisor, Bureau of Land Management, and Walter E.Beck, as Manager, District Land Office, Bureau of Land Management, Departmentof the Interior, Appellees. No. 17093. United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit. Aug. 18, 1961. Chas. L. Gilmore, Sacramento, Cal., for appellant. J. Edward Williams, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., S. Billingsley Hill, A. Donald Mileur, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., and Laurence E. Dayton, U.S. Atty., and J. Harold Weise, Asst. U.S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., for appellee. Before CHAMBERS, JERTBERG and KOELSCH, Circuit Judges. JERTBERG, Circuit Judge. 1 Appellants appeal from a summary judgment dismissing their complaint seeking injunctive relief against the appellees. 2 Jurisdiction of the district court is predicated on the alleged presence of a federal question. Title 28 U.S.C.A. 1358 and 1331. The amount in controversy is alleged to exceed $10,000. This Court has jurisdiction to review the judgment under Title 28 U.S.C.A. 1291 and 1294. 3 It appears that on June 27, 1957, the United States of America, under its powers…