Case Name: HOY v. LANE, Secretary of the Interior
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1919-12-01
Citations: 266 F. 1008
Docket Number: No. 3294
Parties: HOY v. LANE, Secretary of the Interior.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter
Volume: 266
Pages: 1008–1008

Head Matter:
HOY v. LANE, Secretary of the Interior.
(Court of Appeals of District of Columbia.
Submitted October 7, 1919.
Decided December 1, 1919.)
No. 3294.
Appeal from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.
Suit by Prank M. Hoy against Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior. Decree for defendant, and plaintiff appeals.
Affirmed.
H. A. Hegarty and S. S. Ashbaugh, both of Washington, D. C., for appellant.
C. E. Wright and C. D. Mahaffie, both of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Opinion:
SMYTH, Chief Justice.
Appellant asked for an injunction to restrain the Secretary of the Interior from canceling his entry of certain public lands and to compel him to accept for the lands the soldier's additional right, given by section 2306, Revised Statutes (Comp. St. § 4594). This right belonged to one Sylvester Ramey, a soldier, was not exercised or disposed of by him in his lifetime, and is claimed by the appellant through an assignment from a residuary legatee under the will of Ramey. The injunction was denied.
The question presented is the same as that this day decided in U. S. ex rel. Wattis v. Lane, 49 App. D. C. 385, 266 Fed. 1005, namely, whether the Secretary of the Interior, in holding that a soldier's right to enter additional land under section 2306 could not be disposed of by the latter through a will, acted arbitrarily or within the discretion lodged in him by the statute. The ruling in the Wattis Case must control here. Consequently the decree is affirmed, at appellant's cost.
Affirmed.