Legal Opinion
Roberts v. Southern Pac. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern California
Decided March 13, 1911No. 177PublishedCited by 5 opinions
In Rquity. Suit by George D. Roberts and others against the Southern Pacific Company and others.
1Opinion of the Court
ROSS, Circuit Judge.
Stripped of the mass of irrelevant and redundant matter contained in the pleadings, the case presented is this: Can a citizen of the United Slates, or one having declared his intention to become such, lawfully enter upon and claim as mineral ground laud theretofore patented by the government to a railroad company under a congressional grant; such patents, after describing the land thereby conveyed, containing the clause:
“Yet excluding and excepting ‘all mineral lands,’ should any such be found in the tracts aforesaid. But this exclusion and exception according to the terms…
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