Utah v. United States (394 U.S. 89)

ON EXCEPTIONS TO SPECIAL MASTER'S REPORT.

In this dispute between the United States and Utah over ownership of the Great Salt Lake, the Special Master refused to permit the intervention by Morton International, Inc., a claimant to part of the property, because Utah had not waived its sovereign immunity as to Morton's suit. Held: The Special Master's Report will be placed on file and his denial of intervention is approved, since a Stipulation entered into between Utah and the United States has so limited the issues that the presence of Morton and other private claimants is neither necessary nor appropriate.

Vernon B. Romney, Atty. Gen. of Utah, Robert B. Hansen, Deputy Atty. Gen., and Dallin W. Jensen, Asst. Atty. Gen., for plaintiff.

Solicitor General Griswold, Assistant Attorney General Martz, Louis F. Claiborne, David R. Warner and Martin Green, for the United States.

L. M. McBride, Frank A. Wollaeger, Myer Feldman and Martin Jacobs, for Morton International, Inc.

George E. Boss, Raymond T. Senior, Claron C. Spencer and Robert D. Larsen, for Great Salt Lake Minerals & Chemicals Corp.

PER CURIAM