McGilvra v. Ross
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. These cases were consolidated in the Circuit Court, The appellants were complainants in the suits respectively, and asserted title by virtue of patents from the United States to lands bordering on and touching Lakes Washington and Union in the State of Washington to the lands below the high-water mark of said lakes respectively, against a title claimed by the State.
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APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. These cases were consolidated in the Circuit Court, The appellants were complainants in the suits respectively, and asserted title by virtue of patents from the United States to lands bordering on and touching Lakes Washington and Union in the State of Washington to the lands below the high-water mark of said lakes respectively, against a title claimed by the State. The appellee, James P. Agnew, is the auditor of the county of King, and the other appellees constitute the-board of land commissioners of the State. The…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKenna
The appellants are citizens of the State of Washington; and rely, therefore, upon the existence of Federal questions to sustain the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court. These questions are asserted to be (and we give the language of counsel): “ (1) the validity and effect of the several patents of the United States in respect to the claim of ownership thereunder, as set forth in the bill of complaint; (2) the invocation of the protection of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Federal Constitution by these plaintiffs against the threatened taking of their property” by “the several acts of the…
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