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West Virginia ex rel. Dyer et al. v. Sims, Auditor of West Virginia
340 U.S. 807·Supreme Court of the United States·1950
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Opinion
No. 147.
West Virginia ex rel. Dyer et al. v. Sims, Auditor of West Virginia.
William C. Mar-land, Attorney General of West Virginia, Thomas J, Gillooly, Assistant Attorney General, and John B. Hol-lister for petitioners. Charles C. Wise, Jr. for respondent. Briefs of amici curiae supporting petitioners were filed on behalf of the United States by Acting Solicitor General Raum; the States of Illinois by Ivan A. Elliott, Attorney General, and Luden S. Field, Assistant Attorney General, Indiana by J. Emmett McManamon, Attorney General, Kentucky by A. E. Funk, Attorney General, and Squire N. Williams, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, New York by Nathaniel L. Goldstein, Attorney General, Ohio by Herbert S. Duffy, Attorney General, and William C. Bryant, Assistant Attorney General, and Pennsylvania by Charles J. Margiotti, Attorney General, M. Vashti Burr, Deputy Attorney General, and H. F. Stambaugh; the State of Pennsylvania by Charles J. Margiotti, Attorney General, M. Vashti Burr, Deputy Attorney General, and Harry F. Stambaugh; and the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin by L. Harold Sothoron.
[MAJORITY]
Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia. Certiorari granted.