United States v. Iron-Silver Mining Co.

(orally).

I have considered the demurrer to the complaint in the case of The United States of America against The Iron-Silyer Mining Company, which is a bill in chancery filed on behalf of the United States to set aside a patent, upon the ground that the same has been obtained by fraud. The bill is, of course, somewhat lengthy, but I think I can state the substance of the allegations, so far as they charge fraud, without reading it.

It is alleged that the land in question was covered with timber; also that it contained sundry veins, lodes, ledges and seams bearing silver, gold and lead, in rock…